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CHAPTER XI
_The people complain, the Lord is displeased, and many of them_
_are consumed by fire_, 1.
_Moses intercedes for them, and the fire is quenched_, 2.
_The place is called_ Taberah, 3.
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See the marginal rendering. They murmured against the privations of
the march.
THE FIRE OF THE LORD - Probably lightning; compare Psalms 78:21.
IN THE UTTERMOST PARTS - Rather, in the end. The fire...
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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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( JE). THE CHASTISEMENT OF THE PEOPLE AT TABERAH. The occasion was
discontent at some hardship, the nature of which is not explained. The
agency by which the discontent was punished was probably light...
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COMPLAINED. Hebrew were as complainers, Psalms 78:19. In this word
another inverted _nun_ (, _n),_ to mark the fact of the People's
turning back in their hearts. See note on Numbers 10:35.
IT DISPLEAS...
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AND WHEN THE PEOPLE COMPLAINED— The _when_ inserted here much
flattens the sense, and leads the mind to wrong ideas respecting this
event. Read it thus, exactly conformable to the Hebrew, and the spir...
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D. COMPLAINT AND PUNISHMENT AT TABERAH (NUMBERS 11:1-3)
TEXT
Numbers 11:1. And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord:
and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of th...
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_AND WHEN THE PEOPLE COMPLAINED, IT DISPLEASED THE LORD: AND THE LORD
HEARD IT; AND HIS ANGER WAS KINDLED; AND THE FIRE OF THE LORD BURNT
AMONG THEM, AND CONSUMED THEM THAT WERE IN THE UTTERMOST PARTS...
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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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XI.
(1) AND WHEN THE PEOPLE COMPLAINED... — Better, _And the people were
as those who complained_ (or _murmured_)_,_ (which was) _evil in the
ears of the Lord_. The LXX. has, “And the people murmured...
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וַ יְהִ֤י הָ עָם֙ כְּ מִתְאֹ֣נְנִ֔ים
רַ֖ע
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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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Fatigue. Hebrew simply, "and the people were like those who complain
of evil, or who seek pretexts, inwardly, in the ears of the Lord." St.
Jerome explains this evil to mean the fatigue of the journey...
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CONTENTS
This Chapter contains a melancholy relation of Israel's disobedience,
and the LORD'S displeasure. The people murmur. Moses' meekness
forsakes him; and in his fretfulness he ventures to expos...
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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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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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_THE SIN OF DISCONTENT_
‘The people complained.’
Numbers 11:1
I. WE CANNOT WONDER AT THE PEOPLE MURMURING, as they were
unaccustomed to the fatigues of the desert, and it seemed so far to
the land...
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1._And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord. _(11) The
ambiguous signification of the participle (12) causes the translators
to twist this passage into a variety of meanings. Since the H...
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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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AND [WHEN] THE PEOPLE COMPLAINED,.... Or "were as complainers" p; not
merely like to such, but were truly and really complainers, the כ,
"caph", here being not a note of similitude, but of truth and r...
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And [when] the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD
heard [it]; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt
among them, and consumed [them that were] in the uttermost...
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_The people complained_ Hebrew, _as it were, complained;_ that is,
they began to mutter some complaints, and for a while, it seems, kept
their discontent from coming to Moses's ear. The chief cause of...
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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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And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord; literally,
"when the people were voicing their complaints over evil in the ears
of Jehovah"; for the discomforts and inconveniences of even thes...
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THE BURNING AT TABERAH...
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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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COMPLAINED:
Or, were as it were complainers...
IT DISPLEASED THE:
_ Heb._ it was evil in the eyes of etc....
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1-3 Here is the people's sin; they complained. See the sinfulness of
sin, which takes occasion from the commandment to be provoking. The
weakness of the law discovered sin, but could not destroy it;...
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NUMBERS CHAPTER 11 The murmuring of the people, for which the fire
breaketh in upon them, NUMBERS 11:1. Moses prayeth to God; the fire is
quenched, NUMBERS 11:2. The name of the place, and why called,...
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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 11:1 people H5971 complained H596 (H8693) displeased H241
H7451 LORD H3068 LORD H3068 heard H8085 ...
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A SHARP WARNING ABOUT GRUMBLING. THE PEOPLE COMPLAIN AND ARE SMITTEN.
MOSES INTERVENES (NUMBERS 11:1).
It is interesting that even in so short a passage another chiastic
formation is revealed.
a The...
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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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_The people complained._
AGAINST MURMURING
I. A dissatisfied spirit causes displeasure to the Lord.
1. This we might infer from our own feelings, when dependents,
children, servants, or receivers o...
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 11:1 This is a general complaint by the
people. As on other occasions, Moses’ intercession stops God’s
judgment (Exodus 32:11,...
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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
THE PLACE OF BURNING (Numbers 11:1).
NUMBERS 11:1
AND WHEN THE PEOPLE COMPLAINED, it DISPLEASED THE LORD. There is no
"when" in the original. It is literally, "An
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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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1 Corinthians 10:10; 2 Kings 1:12; 2 Samuel 11:27; Deuteronomy 25:18;...
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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...
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Complained — Or, murmured, the occasion whereof seems to be their
last three days journey in a vast howling wilderness, and thereupon
the remembrance of their long abode in the wilderness, and the fea...