Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 31:15
And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
15. the Lord appeared in a pillar of cloud ] With LXX (except for a few cursive MSS) omit in the Tent: as the v. goes on to say, the pillar stood over against the door of the Tent. Also it is probable that appeared is an emendation (by the change of one letter) for the more anthropomorphic came down, which we find in E, Exo 33:9, Num 11:25; Num 12:5. On this verse, Deu 31:23 follows immediately (see below).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of cloud,…. As he was wont to do, see Ex 33:9; in which cloud there was a lustre, a brightness, a glory visible, which showed that he was there:
and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle; it seems to have appeared first in the tabernacle, and then it came out of it, and stood over the door of it, near to which Moses and Joshua were: the Targum of Jonathan adds,
“Moses and Joshua stood without;”
though the former clause, according to Noldius b, should be “over the tabernacle”, or above where the cloud was wont to be.
b Concord. Ebr. Part. p. 164. No. 737.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
This must have been a very refreshing season, to the servants of the LORD: of that glorious appearing of the Shechinah latterly, we do not read so much, as when the people came first out of Egypt. Reader! you and I have no cause to envy our fathers of the church in the wilderness, on account of those manifestations. JESUS hath since that period tabernacled among us in substance of our flesh, Oh! that you and I may, by faith, be enabled to say, and we have seen his glory. Joh 1:14 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
pillar of a cloud. The only reference to it in Deuteronomy.
door = entrance.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Exo 33:9, Exo 33:10, Exo 40:38, Psa 99:7
Reciprocal: Isa 10:4 – Without me
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
31:15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a {g} cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
(g) In a cloud that was fashioned like a pillar.