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Verse Numbers 11:5. _WE REMEMBER, C._] The choice aliments which
those murmurers complained of having lost by their leaving Egypt, were
the following: _fish, cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions_, and _g...
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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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WE REMEMBER THE FISH, &C.— The author of the observations remarks,
that the fish of Egypt are eaten, in common, with pleasure by the
inhabitants of that country; but that in April and May, which is th...
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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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_WE REMEMBER THE FISH, WHICH WE DID EAT IN EGYPT FREELY; THE
CUCUMBERS, AND THE MELONS, AND THE LEEKS, AND THE ONIONS, AND THE
GARLICK:_
We remember the fish - see the note at Exodus 7:21.) All class...
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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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WE REMEMBER THE FISH... — Classical writers and modern travellers
agree in bearing testimony to the abundance of the fish in the Nile
and in the neighbouring canals and reservoirs. The cucumbers in Eg...
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זָכַ֨רְנוּ֙ אֶת ־הַ דָּגָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר
־נֹאכַ֥ל ב
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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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We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt (c) freely; the
cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the
garlick:
(c) For a final price, or good cheap....
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Fish. The Nile abounds in fish, which they might catch freely. The
fish of the lake M\'9cris, brought a considerable revenue to the king
of Egypt. (Herodotus, ii. 149.) The Hebrews had dwelt also near...
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Observe, to what a desperate state of daring impiety the soul may be
led, when no longer under the restraints of grace. See an awful
instance in the case of Jonah, Numbers 4:8. How could Israel be so...
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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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5._We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt. _By this comparison
with the former mode of living, they depreciate the present grace of
God: and yet they enumerate no delicacies, when they speak o...
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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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WE REMEMBER THE FISH WHICH WE DID EAT IN EGYPT FREELY,.... Fish was
food the Egyptians much lived upon; for though Herodotus says the
priests might not taste of fish, the common people ate much; yea,...
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We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers,
and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
Ver. 5. _We remember the fish._] They forgat their servitude.
Di...
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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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THE PEOPLE LUST FOR FLESH...
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We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely, for nothing, as
they state in dissatisfied exaggeration; THE CUCUMBERS, AND THE
MELONS, AND THE LEEKS, AND THE ONIONS, AND THE GARLIC, the form o...
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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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FREELY; either without price, for fish was very plentiful, and fishing
was there free; or with a very small price; for _nothing_ is sometimes
put for a _little_, as 1 THESSALONIANS 18:20 ACTS 27:33; a...
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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 11:5 remember H2142 (H8804) fish H1710 ate H398 (H8799) freely
H2600 Egypt H4714 cucumbers H7180 melons...
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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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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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Exodus 16:3; Philippians 3:19; Psalms 17:14...
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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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Freely — Either without price, for fish was very plentiful, and
fishing was there free, or with a very small price. And this is the
more probable because the Egyptians might not taste of fish, nor of...