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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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SANCTIFY. separate. See note on "holy". Exodus 3:5....
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SAY THOU UNTO THE PEOPLE, SANCTIFY YOURSELVES— Houbigant well
observes, that the original word here might, with propriety, be
rendered, _be ye ready:_ the word is so used Jeremiah 6:4; Jeremiah
12:3;...
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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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_AND SAY THOU UNTO THE PEOPLE, SANCTIFY YOURSELVES AGAINST TO MORROW,
AND YE SHALL EAT FLESH: FOR YE HAVE WEPT IN THE EARS OF THE LORD,
SAYING, WHO SHALL GIVE US FLESH TO EAT? FOR IT WAS WELL WITH US...
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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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SANCTIFY] see Exodus 19:10; Exodus 19:15....
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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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SANCTIFY YOURSELVES AGAINST TO-MORROW. — (Comp. Exodus 19:10.) The
Israelites were required to sanctify themselves by purification for
the more immediate manifestation of the Divine presence, although...
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וְ אֶל ־הָ עָ֨ם תֹּאמַ֜ר
הִתְקַדְּשׁ֣וּ לְ
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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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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...
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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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And say thou unto the people, (l) Sanctify yourselves against to
morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the
LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for [it was] well wit...
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_Sanctified. Prepare yourselves to receive flesh. The word is often
used in this sense, Jeremias vi. 4, &c. (Onkelos) --- Cease to murmur,
and bewail your sin. (Calmet)_...
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Reader! behold in this instance the awfulness of having our appetites,
according to the wishes of our corrupt nature, gratified. Was not that
prayer of Agar founded on a conviction of this? Proverbs 3...
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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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18._And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves. _This is
another part of the answer, which is given respecting the matter in
consideration, viz., that the people should prepare themselves to
sa...
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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 SAY THOU UNTO THE PEOPLE,.... For what follows respects them, as
what goes before regarded himself:
SANCTIFY YOURSELVES AGAINST TOMORROW; or prepare yourselves, as the
Targums of Onkelos, and Jon...
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And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow,
and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD,
saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for [it was] well with us...
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_Sanctify yourselves_ Prepare _to meet thy God, O Israel_, in the way
of his judgments. Prepare yourselves by true repentance, that you may
either obtain some mitigation of the plague, or, while your...
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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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MOSES IS GIVEN ASSISTANTS...
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And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow,
and ye shall eat flesh, they would have their longing satisfied; FOR
YE HAVE WEPT IN THE EARS OF THE LORD, SAYING, WHO SHALL GIVE US...
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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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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...
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SANCTIFY YOURSELVES, i.e. prepare yourselves, either to receive the
miraculous blessings of God, the flesh you desire; or rather, PREPARE
TO MEET THY GOD, O ISRAEL, in the way of his judgments, and to...
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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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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...
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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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_Gather unto Me seventy men of the elders._
THE ANSWER OF GOD TO THE APPEALS OF MEN
I. The Lord’s answer to the appeal of his much-tried servant.
1. The number of the assistants.
2. Their selectio...
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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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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 11:16 Though God gives his people the MEAT
they want, he punishes them for their ungrateful attitude.
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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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Acts 7:39; Exodus 16:13; Exodus 16:3; Exodus 19:10; Exodus 19:15;...
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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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Sanctify themselves — Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel, in the way
of his judgments. Prepare yourselves by true repentance, that you may
either obtain some mitigation of the plague, or, whilst your b...