Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 9:19

19 And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many dayes, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD , and journeyed not.

(i. e.) The command of God mentioned before, that [illegible: 1 word] should stay as long as the cloud stayed, as the same phrase is manifestly taken below, ver. 23. And this, saith he, they did, though it were long in one place, which was tedious to them, who desired to change places and to make haste to Canaan, yet they obeyed God herein against their own inclinations. Which because it was remarkable in so obstinate a people, it is so largely and particularly mentioned here, as an instance of their obedience, and as an aggravation of the many following instances of their Apostacy and Disobedience.

Marginal references: Heb. prolonged.