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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Numbers 11:1

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 displeased the LORD. Hebrew "was evil in the ears of Jehovah". Some codices, with Targum of Onkelos, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, and Syriac, read "eyes" instead of "ears".

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.

the fire. Those before the Law not punished, Exodus 14:11; Exodus 15:24; Exodus 16:2; Exodus 16:9; Exodus 16:20; Exodus 16:27; Exodus 16:28; Exodus 17:2. Punished after Law given. Exodus 32:27. Compare Romans 4:15.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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. _...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    ( 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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    11:1 evil (b-13) Or 'that the people became like men complaining of evil.'...

  • 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

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְהִ֤י הָ עָם֙ כְּ מִתְאֹ֣נְנִ֔ים רַ֖ע

  • 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

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • 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

    THE BURNING AT TABERAH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • 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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    COMPLAINED: Or, were as it were complainers... IT DISPLEASED THE: _ Heb._ it was evil in the eyes of etc....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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;...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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,...

  • 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 11:1 people H5971 complained H596 (H8693) displeased H241 H7451 LORD H3068 LORD H3068 heard H8085 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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,...

  • 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 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

  • 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

    1 Corinthians 10:10; 2 Kings 1:12; 2 Samuel 11:27; Deuteronomy 25:18;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

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