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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 11:2

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 those countries, and mentioned in Scripture, Ezekiel 17:10; Ezekiel 19:12 and by one of which Thevenot, in his Voyages, (part 1: b. 2 Chronicles 34 :) tells us, 2000 men perished in one night, in the year 1658.

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See also Numbers 11:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • 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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּצְעַ֥ק הָ עָ֖ם אֶל ־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַ

  • 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

    _Up, as rain is by the earth, Amos ix. 5._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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....

  • 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...

  • 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

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

    _The people cried unto Moses_ This calamity threw them into such consternation, that they immediately applied to Moses to deprecate the divine displeasure....

  • 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 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...

  • 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)

    WAS QUENCHED: _ Heb._ sunk...

  • 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

    THE PEOPLE, the murmurers being penitent, or others for fear. UNTO MOSES, whom they knew to be very prevalent with God....

  • 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 11:2 people H5971 cried H6817 (H8799) Moses H4872 Moses H4872 prayed H6419 (H8691) LORD H3068 fire...

  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The people — The murmurers, being penitent; or others for fear....

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