On the distinction between the tent as the outer shelter and the tabernacle as the dwelling-place of Yahweh, which is very clear in these verses, s…

THE DESCENT OF THE GLORY OF GOD UPON THE TABERNACLE.

Then a cloud. —Hebrew, the cloud, t…

Then a cloud covered the tent. The holiness of the tabernacle was proved by this signal or pledge, for the people surely knew that it had …

Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation
The outside of it; this cloud was the same with the pillar of clou…

The cloud covered the tabernacle even on the clearest day; it was not a cloud which the sun scatters. This cloud was a sign of God's presence, to b…