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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Numbers 11:6

Dry, like people quite worn out for want of food. (Psalm ci. 5, 12; Lamentations iv. 8.) --- Nothing. An exaggeration. We are disgusted with this light food. (Calmet) --- They wished not only for the taste, but also for the colour, of other meats. (Menochius) --- How often do we imitate their folly, when we are disgusted with the bread of life! (Haydock)

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Occurrences at Kibroth-hattavah. Numbers 11:4 THE MIXT MULTITUDE - The word in the original resembles our “riff-raff,” and denotes a mob of people scraped together. It refers here to the multitude of...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    NUMBERS 11:4 (JE). THE PEOPLE'S LUST FOR FLESH AND MOSES-' COMPLAINT OF HIS EXCESSIVE BURDEN. This section is a combination of two narratives (from J and E), relating (1) a demand of the people for fl...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OUR SOUL IS. Hebrew. _nephesh =_ we [are]. App-13....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    OUR SOUL IS DRIED AWAY— This expression is of the same import with that of the Psalmist; _my heart is—withered like grass._ The word נפשׁ _nepesh,_ as we have before observed, is often used for the me...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    E. BITTER EXPERIENCE AT THE GRAVES OF LUST (KIBROTH-HATTAAVAH), vv. 4-35 TEXT Numbers 11:4. And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BUT NOW OUR SOUL IS DRIED AWAY: THERE IS NOTHING AT ALL, BESIDE THIS MANNA, BEFORE OUR EYES._ But now ... there is nothing ... besides this manna. Daily familiarity had disgusted them with the sight...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOURNEYINGS FROM SINAI TO MOAB (NUMBERS 10:11 TO NUMBERS 22:1) After a stay at Sinai of nearly a year (cp. Numbers 10:11 with Exodus 19:1) the s

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 11 GOD SENDS FIRE – NUMBERS 11:1-3 V1 The people started to complain about their problems. The *LORD heard the

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THERE IS NOTHING AT ALL... — Better, _there is nothing, except that our eyes_ (_look_)_ upon, the manna. _...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ עַתָּ֛ה נַפְשֵׁ֥נוּ יְבֵשָׁ֖ה אֵ֣ין כֹּ֑ל...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE STRAIN OF THE DESERT JOURNEY Numbers 11:1 THE narrative has accompanied the march of Israel but a short way from the mount of God to some spot marked for an encampment by the ark of the covenant,...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE MURMURING FLESH-LOVERS Numbers 11:1 We cannot wonder at the people's murmuring. They were unaccustomed to the fatigues of the desert, and had not realized the length of the journey. Let us beware...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here we enter upon the second section in the Book of Numbers, in which is revealed the failure of man. The first evidence was discontent, resulting unquestionably from the hardship of life. This was...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But now our soul [is] (d) dried away: [there is] nothing at all, beside this manna, [before] our eyes. (d) For the greedy lust of flesh....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    See how wretched a state the mind of man is capable of being reduced to by sin! To speak lightly and contemptuously of angel's food, which fell around their tents, without labour on their part to proc...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    It is impossible to look at this book ever so cursorily without feeling the difference of the atmosphere from that of Leviticus. And this is so much the more striking because it cannot be fairly doubt...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The previous portion of the Book of Numbers, viewed as a history, has evidently a prefatory character, however important and divinely wise. It is in a great measure preparatory for that which we have...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    6._But now our soul is dried away. _They complain that they are almost wasted away with famine and hunger, whilst they are abundantly supplied with manna; in the same way as they had just been loudly...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    We are now brought to turn our thoughts in another direction-to see the conduct of the people in the wilderness, and alas! what is it except a history of unfaithfulness and rebellion? Let us add, howe...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT NOW OUR SOUL IS DRIED AWAY,.... Meaning their bodies, which, for want of flesh food, they pretended had no moisture in them, or they were half starved, and in wasting and consuming circumstances:...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But now our soul [is] dried away: [there is] nothing at all, beside this manna, [before] our eyes. Ver. 6. _There is nothing at all besides._] The wheat of heaven was held a light meat, because light...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The fish which we did eat freely_ Either without price, for fish was very plentiful, and fishing there free, or at a very small price. _Our soul_ Either our life, as the term signifies, Genesis 9:5,...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The burning at Taberah quenched by Moses prayer. 4 The people lust for flesh, and loth Manna. 10 Moses complayneth of his charge. 16 God diuideth his burden vnto seuentie Elders. 31 Quailes are...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    but now our soul is dried away, an expression intended to convey the utmost disgust and loathing; THERE IS NOTHING AT ALL, BESIDE THIS MANNA, BEFORE OUR EYES. Their lustful desire demanded rich and ap...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PEOPLE LUST FOR FLESH...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    COMPLAINT ANSWERED BY FIRE (vs.1-3) Israel had reason for profound thanksgiving to the Lord, as believers certainly have today. Yet now they complained (v.1) without any reason for it. It is sad when...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    4-9 Man, having forsaken his proper rest, feels uneasy and wretched, though prosperous. They were weary of the provision God had made for them, although wholesome food and nourishing. It cost no mone...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    OUR SOUL; either, 1. OUR LIFE, as the soul signifies, GENESIS 9:5 PSALMS 33:19 JOB 36:14; or, 2. OUR BODY, which is oft signified by the soul, as...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    Hitherto we have been occupied, in our study of this book, with God's mode of ordering and providing for His people in the wilderness. We have travelled over the first ten Chapter s and seen in them t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Numbers 11:6 being H5315 up H3002 except H1115 manna H4478 eyes H5869 Numbers 21:5;...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE GRUMBLING AGAIN FLARES UP: MURMURING FOR MEAT INSTEAD OF MANNA (NUMBERS 11:4). What follows brings home to us something of the condition of many of the people. They were not on the whole a people...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    MANNA (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 16:35). _...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Numbers 11:1. _And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD:_ Interpreters cannot make out what they had to complain of. The curse of labour had been removed; they did not earn their bread...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Complaints about the manna and the consequences. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Eldad, Medad, Joshua. CONCLUSION: Though God graciously gives us leave to complain to Him when there is cause, yet...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Numbers 11:7. _The manna._ See Exodus 14:15. and 31. _Bdellium._ See Genesis 2:12; Exodus 28:19....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _There is nothing at all, beside this manna._ THE MANNA DESPISED I. The complaining of the Israelites in this case was very reprehensible, as it manifested a state of aggravated neglect of the peculi...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 11:4 The people complain about the monotony of their diet of manna. What they really want, however, are the pleasures of EGYPT (vv. Numbers 11:4

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    This time let's turn to Numbers chapter eleven. In reading Numbers eleven through twenty, I see a pattern emerging, a pattern of chronic complaining, as the people are now complaining against the Lord...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Samuel 13:4; Numbers 21:5...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Our soul — Either our life, as the soul signifies, Genesis 9:5, or our body, which is often signified by the soul. Dried away — Is withered and pines away; which possibly might be true, through envy a...

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