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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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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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_BUT NOW OUR SOUL IS DRIED AWAY: THERE IS NOTHING AT ALL, BESIDE THIS
MANNA, BEFORE OUR EYES._
But now ... there is nothing ... besides this manna. Daily
familiarity had disgusted them with the sight...
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11:8 oil-cakes. (a-38) Others, 'fresh oil.'...
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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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שָׁטוּ֩ הָ עָ֨ם וְ לָֽקְט֜וּ וְ
טָחֲנ֣וּ
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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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_Oil; or, when unprepared, like flour and honey, Exodus xvi. 31.
(Calmet)_...
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See how wretched a state the mind of man is capable of being reduced
to by sin! To speak lightly and contemptuously of angel's food, which
fell around their tents, without labour on their part to proc...
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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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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 WENT ABOUT AND GATHERED [IT],.... Went about the camp
on all sides, where it fell in plenty; this they did every morning,
and this was all the trouble they were at; they had it for ga...
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Numbers 11:8 [And] the people went about, and gathered [it], and
ground [it] in mills, or beat [it] in a mortar, and baked [it] in
pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of
f...
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_As coriander-seed_ Not for colour, for that is black, but for shape
and figure. _Bdellium_ Is either the gum of a tree, of a white and
bright colour, or rather a gem or precious stone, as the Hebrew...
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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 went about and gathered it, and ground it in mills, in
the small hand-mills such as were in use in the Orient, Matthew 24:41,
OR BEAT IT IN A MORTAR, AND BAKED IT IN PANS, AND MADE CAKE...
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THE PEOPLE LUST FOR FLESH...
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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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Or, _of the most excellent oil_; or, _of the flour of oil_; or, as
others, _of cakes or paste made with the best oil_, the word _cakes_
being easily supplied out of the foregoing member of the verse;...
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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 11:8 people H5971 about H7751 (H8804) gathered H3950 (H8804)
ground H2912 (H8804) millstones H7347 beat...
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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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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 16:16; Exodus 16:23; Exodus 16:31; John 6:27; John 6:33...
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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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Fresh oil — Or, of the most excellent oil; or of cakes made with the
best oil, the word cakes being easily supplied out of the foregoing
member of the verse; or, which is not much differing, like wafe...
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Did the manna taste like a honey wafer or like fresh oil?
PROBLEM: Here the manna’s “taste was like the taste of pastry
prepared with oil.” But in Exodus 16:31 asserts that the “taste of
it was like...