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Verse Numbers 11:32. _THE PEOPLE STOOD UP, C._] While these immense
flocks were flying at this short distance from the ground, fatigued
with the strong wind and the distance they had come, they were...
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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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HOMERS. See Leviticus 27:16, and App-51....
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AND THERE WENT FORTH A WIND FROM THE LORD, &C.— See Exodus 16:13. As
we have met with no commentator who has explained this passage so well
and fully as the author of the observations, we here subjoin...
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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 THERE WENT FORTH A WIND FROM THE LORD, AND BROUGHT QUAILS FROM
THE SEA, AND LET THEM FALL BY THE CAMP, AS IT WERE A DAY'S JOURNEY ON
THIS SIDE, AND AS IT WERE A DAY'S JOURNEY ON THE OTHER SIDE, R...
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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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A homer is about ten bushels. The quails were spread out to dry for
preservation....
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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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וַ יָּ֣קָם הָ עָ֡ם כָּל ־הַ יֹּום֩
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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 GRAVES OF LUST”
Numbers 11:26
It is delightful to note the proof of the nobility of Moses' nature in
the answer he gave to the tidings concerning Eldad and Medad. They
might not be of the design...
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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 the people stood up all that day, and all [that] night, and all
the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least
gathered ten (s) homers: and they spread [them] all abroad for
th...
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Cores. Hebrew, "Chomarim," each of contained 100 gomers. One gomer was
the daily allowance of manna for each person, and of course their must
have been sufficient quails for one hundred days. But Mose...
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If, as some have thought, these quails were the same in nature and
genus as the locusts, which came up at the command of GOD into the
land of Egypt, the blessing was doubly grateful: that what, in the...
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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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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 THE PEOPLE STOOD UP ALL THAT DAY,.... The day on which they fell
in the morning:
AND ALL [THAT] NIGHT; the night following:
AND ALL THE NEXT DAY; after that, even the space of thirty six hours:...
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And the people stood up all that day, and all [that] night, and all
the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least
gathered ten homers: and they spread [them] all abroad for themse...
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_All that night and all next day_ Some at the one time, and some at
the other, and some, through greediness or diffidence, at both times.
_Ten homers_ That is, ten ass-loads: which, if it seem incredi...
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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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And the people stood up all that day and all that night and all the
next day, and they gathered the quails; he that gathered least
gathered ten homers (more than eighty bushels). AND THEY SPREAD THEM...
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QUAILS ARE SENT...
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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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31-35 God performed his promise to the people, in giving them flesh.
How much more diligent men are in collecting the meat that perishes,
than in labouring for meat which endures to everlasting life!...
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STOOD UP, or rather _rose up_, which word is oft used for attempting
or beginning to do any business. ALL NIGHT; some at one time, and some
at the other, and some, through their greediness or diffiden...
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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 11:32 people H5971 up H6965 (H8799) day H3117 night H3915 next
H4283 day H3117 gathered H622 ...
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YAHWEH PROVIDES MEAT FROM HEAVEN (NUMBERS 11:31).
In accordance with His second promise to Moses Yahweh now sent meat
from the skies. A ruach (spirit, wind) from Yahweh brought quails to
the camp in h...
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Numbers 11:31
Notice:
I. The perpetual resurrections of easily besetting sins. (1) Look at
the side from which the temptation came. It was distinctly a question
of lust. Lust was strong in the people...
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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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_They gathered the quails._
THE QUAILS
I. Israel’s complaint.
1. Its object was food.
2. Its nature was intense. “Fell a lusting.”
3. It was general.
4. It was accompanied with tears. A faint, w...
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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 11:31 Quail (small partridges) migrate north
across the Sinai Peninsula in the spring and fall, so these were not a
regular food item. There were so many quail that anyone coul...
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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 16:36; Ezekiel 45:11...
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Stood up — Or rather rose up, which word is often used for beginning
to do any business. All that night — Some at one time, and some at
the other, and some, through greediness or diffidence, at both t...
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How could God bring judgment on the people for eating the quail that
He provided?
PROBLEM: God miraculously provided quail for the people to eat.
However, the wrath of the Lord was aroused against th...