Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Numbers 11:2
The people cried unto Moses This calamity threw them into such consternation, that they immediately applied to Moses to deprecate the divine displeasure.
The people cried unto Moses This calamity threw them into such consternation, that they immediately applied to Moses to deprecate the divine displeasure.
Verse Numbers 11:2. _THE FIRE WAS QUENCHED_] Was _sunk_, or swallowed up, as in the margin. The plague, of whatever sort, ceased to act, and the people had respite....
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...
( 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...
THE FIRE WAS QUENCHED— Εκοπασε, the LXX. _it ceased._ Scheuchzer is of opinion, as also is Le Clerc, that this destruction might be wrought by one of those fiery, blasting winds, which are incident to...
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...
_AND THE PEOPLE CRIED UNTO MOSES; AND WHEN MOSES PRAYED UNTO THE LORD, THE FIRE WAS QUENCHED._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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
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
THE FIRE WAS QUENCHED. — Better, _subsided_ or _sunk down._ No precise information is given as to the extent of the fire, or as to the objects which it destroyed. It broke out in the extremity of the...
וַ יִּצְעַ֥ק הָ עָ֖ם אֶל ־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַ
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,...
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...
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...
_Up, as rain is by the earth, Amos ix. 5._...
Is not Moses here a type of the ever-blessed JESUS? Reader! do not fail to learn from hence, in all thy trials, and under all thy transgressions, to go to JESUS. 1 John 2:1....
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...
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...
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...
AND THE PEOPLE CRIED UNTO MOSES,.... And entreated him to pray for them, being frightened at the fire which consumed many of them, lest it should spread and become general among them: AND WHEN MOSES...
And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched. Ver. 2. _And the people cried to Moses._] That lord chancellor of heaven, as one calleth him, that could r...
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...
THE BURNING AT TABERAH...
And the people cried unto Moses, their terror made them turn to the one man who had shown himself their ready champion at all times; AND WHEN MOSES PRAYED UNTO THE LORD, THE FIRE WAS QUENCHED, it sank...
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...
WAS QUENCHED: _ Heb._ sunk...
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;...
THE PEOPLE, the murmurers being penitent, or others for fear. UNTO MOSES, whom they knew to be very prevalent with God....
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...
Numbers 11:2 people H5971 cried H6817 (H8799) Moses H4872 Moses H4872 prayed H6419 (H8691) LORD H3068 fire...
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...
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...
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...
Numbers 11:7. _The manna._ See Exodus 14:15. and 31. _Bdellium._ See Genesis 2:12; Exodus 28:19....
_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...
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,...
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...
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
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...
1 John 2:1; 1 John 2:2; 1 John 5:16; Acts 8:24; Amos 7:2;...
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...
The people — The murmurers, being penitent; or others for fear....