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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Numbers 11:22. _SHALL THE FLOCKS AND THE HERDS BE SLAIN_] There is certainly a considerable measure of _weakness_ and _unbelief_ manifested in the complaints and questions of Moses on this occa...

  • 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

    II. THE JOURNEY STARTED: ISRAEL'S UNBELIEF, FAILURE AND PUNISHMENT 1. The Departure and the First Failure CHAPTER 10:11-36 _ 1. The cloud moves (Numbers 10:11)_ 2. The standard of the camp of Juda...

  • 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...

  • 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

    _AND MOSES SAID, THE PEOPLE, AMONG WHOM I AM, ARE SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND FOOTMEN; AND THOU HAST SAID, I WILL GIVE THEM FLESH, THAT THEY MAY EAT A WHOLE MONTH._ Moses said ... Shall the flocks and the h...

  • 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

    SHALL THE FLOCKS AND THE HERDS..? — Rather, _Shall flocks and herds_..? The definite article is not used here, nor the possessive pronoun, as elsewhere, where the flocks and herds of the Israelites ar...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֲ צֹ֧אן וּ בָקָ֛ר יִשָּׁחֵ֥ט לָהֶ֖ם וּ

  • 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

    GOD'S SPIRIT UPON THE SEVENTY Numbers 11:16 God's considerateness for His overwrought servant was very tender. He knows our frame and remembers that we are dust. He does not chide, nor keep His ange...

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Fishes. Moses does not distinguish them from flesh, no more than St. Paul does, 1 Corinthians xv. 39. Fish was not formerly allowed on fasting days. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! do not overlook the weakness of Moses' faith in this instance. Is this the same person who at the LORD'S command fetched water from the very rock? Learn from hence what man is when left to him...

  • 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 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

    SHALL THE FLOCKS AND THE HERDS BE SLAIN FOR THEM, TO SUFFICE THEM?.... Suggesting that if all their cattle, their sheep, and oxen were killed, which they and the mixed multitude brought out of Egypt,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them? Ver. 22. _Or shall all the fish of the sea._] Moses...

  • 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

    Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them to suffice them? Would that be enough to satisfy this demand? OR SHALL ALL THE FISH OF THE SEA BE GATHERED TOGETHER FOR THEM TO SUFFICE THEM?...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    MOSES IS GIVEN ASSISTANTS...

  • 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

    16-23 Moses is to choose such as he knew to be elders, that is, wise and experienced men. God promises to qualify them. If they were not found fit for the employ, they should be made fit. Even the di...

  • 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 11:22 flocks H6629 herds H1241 slaughtered H7819 (H8735) enough H4672 (H8804) fish H1709 sea H3220 togethe

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YAHWEH'S RESPONSE TO MOSES: THE APPOINTMENT OF THE SEVENTY ELDERS AND THE PEOPLE WILL HAVE FOOD (NUMBERS 11:16). At Moses' plea Yahweh graciously responded to both his problems, not by killing him, bu...

  • 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 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 11:16 Though God gives his people the MEAT they want, he punishes them for their ungrateful attitude. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 11:1. “_And when the people complained,”_ etc. Margin: “the people were, as it were, complainers.” _Speaker’s Comm_.: “And the people were as those that complai...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION KIBROTH HATTAAVAH (Numbers 11:4). NUMBERS 11:4 THE MIXED MULTITUDE. Hebrew, _ha_-_saphsuph, _the gathered; the rift-raft, or rabble, which had followed the fortunes of Israel out of Egypt...

  • 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 Kings 7:2; John 6:6; John 6:7; John 6:9; Luke 1:18;...

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