Ixxxvili INTRODUCTION. 



When he led his hosts from Egypt through 

 the Red Sea, he went before them by day 

 in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar 

 of fire ;* when he was about to descend upon 

 Mount Sinai, he said Lo, I come unto thee 

 in a thick cloud. 2 When the tabernacle was 

 set up in the wilderness, and the work was 

 finished, Then a cloud covered the tent of the 

 congregation, and the glory of the Lord 

 filled the tabernacle* When Solomon's 

 Temple was built, and the ark brought into 

 the oracle, and placed under the wings of 

 the cherubim, and the priests were come 

 forth, then The cloud filled the house, so that 

 the priests could not stand to minister because 

 of the cloud : for the glory of the Lord had 

 filled the house of the Lord* As God thus 

 came of old in a cloud, and by it manifested 

 his presence to his people and in his house ; so 

 likewise when he spoke to them, it was from a 

 cloud, as in the passage above quoted Lo, 

 I come to thee in a thick cloud, that thy 

 people may hear when I speak with thee. 

 And again, And a cloud covered the mount ; 

 and the glory of the Lord abode upon Mount 



i Exod. xiii. 21. 2 /^^. x | Xt 9^ 16. 1 Kings, viii. 12. 



3 Exod. xl. 33, 34. 4 1 Kings, viii. 611. 



