Rashi
Jewish
1040–1105
“by day every day.”
The interpretation timeline
Neh 9:12
How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.
From the early Church Fathers to now.
1 Jewish · 1 Reformed · 1 Methodist
Neh 9:12 · Douay-Rheims
“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.”
Scholastic
c. 1100 – 1500
1105
A.D.
666 years pass — nothing from this stretch is hosted yet
Post-Reformation
c. 1650 – 1900
1771
A.D.
John Gill
Reformed
1697–1771
“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.”
1832
A.D.
Adam Clarke
Methodist
1762–1832
“By a cloudy pillar - See the notes on the parallel passages, both here and in the other verses.”
Modern · 1953 →
The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.