John Gill, on Neh 9:12

“And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by day, and in a pillar of Are by night, that they might see the way by which they went.”

“Moreover, thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar,.... The Israelites, to shelter them from the heat of the sun in a dry and barren wilderness: and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go; through a trackless desert, see Exo 13:21.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.