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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...
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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...
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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...
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OUR SOUL IS. Hebrew. _nephesh =_ we [are]. App-13....
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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
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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
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THERE IS NOTHING AT ALL... — Better, _there is nothing, except that
our eyes_ (_look_)_ upon, the manna.
_...
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וְ עַתָּ֛ה נַפְשֵׁ֥נוּ יְבֵשָׁ֖ה
אֵ֣ין כֹּ֑ל...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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:...
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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...
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_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,...
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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...
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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...
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THE PEOPLE LUST FOR FLESH...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Numbers 11:6 being H5315 up H3002 except H1115 manna H4478 eyes H5869
Numbers 21:5;...
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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...
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MANNA
(_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 16:35). _...
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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...
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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...
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Numbers 11:7. _The manna._ See Exodus 14:15. and 31. _Bdellium._ See
Genesis 2:12; Exodus 28:19....
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_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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Samuel 13:4; Numbers 21:5...
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TROUBLES AND TESTINGS BY THE WAY
Numbers 11:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
Our last study was a study of Numbers 9:1. We are skipping over the
10th chapter and preparing to consider chapter 11. There are, ho...