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Verse Numbers 11:7. _THE MANNA_ WAS _AS CORIANDER SEED_] Probably this
short description is added to show the iniquity of the people in
murmuring, while they had so adequate a provision. But the basen...
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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 o...
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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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MANNA. Compare John 6:31; 1 Corinthians 10:3.
COLOUR. Hebrew "eye", put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct),
App-6, for that which it distinguishes. Exodus 16:14; Exodus 16:31....
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THE MANNA WAS AS CORIANDER-SEED, &C.— This description of the manna,
its excellence as a food, its immediate descent from God, and the
easiness of its procural, appear to be subjoined by the sacred wr...
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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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11:7 appearance (d-10) Lit. 'eye.'...
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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 signal is given for the breaking up of the camp. This sec...
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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 them. He...
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AND THE MANNA WAS... — The design of the description of the manna in
this place (comp. Exodus 16:14; Exodus 16:31, and Notes _in loc.;_
also Article M_anna,_ in “Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible”) was...
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וְ הַ מָּ֕ן כִּ זְרַע ־גַּ֖ד ה֑וּא וְ
עֵינֹ֖ו כְּ עֵ֥ין הַ בְּדֹֽלַח׃...
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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 bewar...
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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 manna [was] as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the
colour of (e) bdellium.
(e) Which is a white pearl, or precious stone....
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_Bdellium. Bdellium, according to Pliny, ([Natural History?] lib. xxi.
chap. 9,) was of the colour of a man's nail, white and bright;
(Challoner) or like wax, ([Natural History?] lib. xii. 9,) between...
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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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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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7._And the manna was as coriander seed. _Moses had already adverted to
this in Exodus 16:0; (18) but he now repeats it, in order more fully
to condemn their perverse desire; for what could be more uns...
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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 MANNA [WAS] AS CORIANDER SEED,.... Not in colour, for that is
black or darkish, whereas the manna was white, as is generally
observed; of which Exodus 16:31; however it might be like the
coria...
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And the manna [was] as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the
colour of bdellium.
Ver. 7. _And the manna._] _See Trapp on "_ Exo 16:14 _"_ _See Trapp on
"_ Exo 16:31 _"_ There was therefore no...
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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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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 whe...
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COLOR THEREOF AS THE COLOR:
_ Heb._ eye of it, as the eye of...
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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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AS CORIANDER SEED; not for colour, for that is black, but for shape
and figure. BDELLIUM is either,
1. The gum of a tree, of a white and bright colour; or rather,
2. A gem or precious stone, as the...
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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 11:7 manna H4478 coriander H1407 seed H2233 color H5869 color
H5869 bdellium H916
the manna - Exodus 16:14-15, Exodus 16:31; 1 Corinthians 1:23-24;
Revelation 2:17
colour thereof as the colo...
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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.
Numbers 11:16. _Gather unto me seventy men of the elders._ The Hebrews
always had elders, as appears fr...
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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). They are not satisfied with
G...
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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 Lor...
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1 Corinthians 1:23; 1 Corinthians 1:24; Exodus 16:14; Exodus 16:15;
Exodus 16:31; Genesis 2:12; Revelation 2:17...
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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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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 Hebre...