When the cloud descended on the tabernacle outside the camp, the response of Israel was spontaneous and unanimous. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, the Aramaic paraphrase of the Torah, captures the moment.
"All the people beheld the column of the Cloud standing at the door of the tabernacle, and the whole people at once rose up and worshipped toward the tabernacle, standing every man at the door of his tent" (Exodus 33:10).
Read that carefully. Every tent door. Not just the righteous. Not just the Levites. Every tent. The same camp that a few chapters earlier had been dancing around gold was now, to a man, standing at the threshold of his home, bowing in the direction of the cloud.
The Targum's Aramaic underlines the unity with the word kacheda, together, at once. There was no confusion, no delayed response, no holdouts. The sight of the cloud column over Moses' tent did what no speech could have done. It reminded them in a single instant what they had almost thrown away.
The wicked who had stared with the evil eye now stood with the rest. Whatever calculations they had been running collapsed when the pillar came down. Some evidence cannot be argued with.
Takeaway: Worship sometimes has to be earned back. And when it comes back, it often comes back all at once, the whole camp rising at the same time, at every door.