Exodus 13:21

Summary Of Travel

²⁰ They journeyed from Succoth [in Goshen] and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness. ²¹ The [presence of the] Lord was going before them by day in a pillar (column) of cloud to lead them along the way, and in a pillar of fire by night to give them light, so that they could travel by day and by night. ²² He did not withdraw the pillar of cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from going before the people.

Day and Night

Lord Went Before Them

Pillar of Cloud

Pillar of Fire

Jehovah

Deuteronomy 1:33

who went before you along the way, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to seek a place for you to make camp and to show you the way in which you should go.

Nehemiah 9:12

“And with a pillar of cloud You led them by day,
And with a pillar of fire by night
To light the way for them
In which they were to go.

Psalm 78:14

In the daytime He led them with a cloud
And all the night with a light of fire.

Psalm 99:7

He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud;
They kept His testimonies
And the statutes that He gave them.

Psalm 105:39

The Lord spread a cloud as a covering [by day],
And a fire to illumine the night.

Numbers 9:15-23

Now on the day that the tabernacle was erected, the cloud [of God’s presence] covered the tabernacle, that is, the tent of the Testimony; and in the evening it was over the tabernacle, appearing like [a pillar of] fire until the morning.

Numbers 14:14

and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, Lord, are among these people [of Israel], that You, Lord, are seen face to face, while Your cloud stands over them; and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

Nehemiah 9:19

You, in Your great mercy and compassion,
Did not abandon them in the wilderness;
The pillar of the cloud did not leave them by day,
To lead them in the way,
Nor the pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way they should go.

Numbers 10:34

The cloud of the Lord was over them by day when they set out from the camp.

1 Corinthians 10:1-2

For I do not want you to be unaware, believers, that our fathers were all under the cloud [in which God’s presence went before them] and they all passed [miraculously and safely] through the [Red] Sea;

Exodus 14:19-24

The angel of God, who had been going in front of the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them. The pillar of the cloud moved from in front and stood behind them.

Exodus 33:9-10

Whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the doorway of the tent; and the Lord would speak with Moses.

Exodus 40:34-38

Then the cloud [the Shekinah, God’s visible, dwelling presence] covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory and brilliance of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

Isaiah 4:5-6

then the Lord will create over the entire site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies, a cloud by day, smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory and brilliance will be a canopy [a defense, a covering of His divine love and protection].