Exodus 13:22

He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day ,.... It always appeared in the daytime, and was a guide and shelter:

nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people ; this continued till they came through the wilderness to the borders of the land of Canaan, when they needed it no longer, and then it left them; for when they passed over Jordan the ark went before them, Joshua 3:6 .