Numbers 16:42

And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron ,.... To kill them, as the Targum of Jonathan adds; who, perhaps, upon uttering their murmurs, made up to them, and by their gestures showed an intention to murder them:

that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation ; either the people did, to see whether they could observe any appearance of the displeasure of God against them; or rather Moses and Aaron looked that way for help and deliverance in this extreme danger, knowing there was no salvation for them but of the Lord, Jeremiah 3:23 ,

and, behold, the cloud covered it ; as when it was first erected, and which was a token of the divine Presence, Numbers 9:15 ; perhaps it had dispersed immediately upon the death of the rebels, and now returned again in favour of the servants of the Lord:

and the glory of the Lord appeared ; in the cloud, as in Numbers 16:19 ; to encourage Moses and Aaron, and to deliver them out of the hands of the people, and to the terror of them.