Psalms 99:7
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
American King James Version (AKJV)
He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
American Standard Version (ASV)
He spake unto them in the pillar of cloud: They kept his testimonies, And the statute that he gave them.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
His voice came to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept his witness, and the law which he gave them.
Webster's Revision
He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
World English Bible
He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, the statute that he gave them.
English Revised Version (ERV)
He spake unto them in the pillar of cloud: they kept his testimonies, and the statute that he gave them.
Clarke's Psalms 99:7 Bible Commentary
He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar - That is, he directed all their operations, marchings, and encampments by this cloudy pillar. See Exodus 33:9.
They kept his testimonies - Do ye the same, and God will be your portion as he was theirs.
Barnes's Psalms 99:7 Bible Commentary
He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar - He spake to the men of other times; to those who called upon his name. It cannot be meant literally that he spake to "Samuel" from the "cloudy pillar" - the pillar which guided the Israelites in the wilderness, unless that term be understood in the general sense as denoting the "Shechinah" - the visible symbol of the divine presence - the cloud that rested on the ark. The idea is, that God his people in ancient times from the cloud - the symbol of his presence; that he communed with them; that he heard their prayers; that he gave them his commandments; that he interposed in their behalf, and that it was not a vain thing that they worshipped him. All this was as true of Samuel - it is as true now of those who call upon God - as it was of Moses and Aaron.
They kept his testimonies ... - They obeyed his laws, and he thus heard and answered them.
Wesley's Psalms 99:7 Bible Commentary
99:7 Spake - To some of them: to Moses and Aaron, Exod 19:24 33:9 - 11 1Sam 7:9, and c.
