Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 9:20
And [so] it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.
And [so] it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle,…. Or “days of number”, which were so few that they might be easily numbered: the Targum of Jonathan interprets them of the seven days of the week, as if the sense was, when the cloud rested a week on the tabernacle:
according to the commandment of the Lord they abode in their tents; during these few days, be they a week, or more, or less:
and according to the commandment of the Lord they journeyed; when it removed from the tabernacle.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(20) And so it was . . . Better, And sometimes, &c., i.e., there were times or occasions in which, &c. So in Num. 9:21.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
a few days. Hebrew “days of number”: i.e. days easily counted.
according to, &c. Figure of speech Mesarchia, App-6(twice).
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Reciprocal: Num 9:18 – and at the Deu 7:21 – the Lord