“ I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. ”
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 mu...
Numbers 11:4-35 (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 peo...
it is . the burden is. The Ellipsis to be supplied according to App-6.
I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
I am not able to bear all this people alone— Though Moses, by Jethro's advice, had appointed several persons to assist him, Exodus 18:21 yet all the weighty and difficult causes were still brough...
Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased. Moses said unto the Lo...
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 ca...
To bear all this people alone. — In accordance with the advice of Jethro, able men had been chosen out of all Israel who heard and determined the small matters which arose among them ( Exodus 18:25...
THE STRAIN OF THE DESERT JOURNEY Numbers 11:1-35 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...
the Murmuring Flesh-lovers Numbers 11:1-15 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...
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...
Let us pause over these verses to lament the corruptions and imperfections of our poor fallen nature, which we behold even in so great a man as Moses bursting forth so unseemly. Alas! what is man in...
I am not able to bear all this people alone ,.... The burden of government of them, to take care of them and provide sustenance for them; but he was not alone, for, not to take notice of the rulers...
I am not able to bear all this people alone, because [it is] too heavy for me. Ver. 14. It is too heavy for me. ] Crowns have their cares; high seats are uneasy, many a cumber attends honour. Bea...
Every man in the door of his tent To denote they were not ashamed of their sin. Have I not found favour Why didst thou not hear my prayer when I desired thou wouldst excuse me, and commit the car...
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...
4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we did eat...
All this people, i.e. the burden of providing for and satisfying of them. Object. How was he alone, when there were others added to help him, Exodus 18:21,24 ? Answ. Those were only assista...
The Grumbling Again Flares Up: Murmuring For Meat Instead Of Manna ( Numbers 11:4-15 ). What follows brings home to us something of the condition of many of the people. They were not on the whole...
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 comp...
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, a...
Wherefore hast Thou afflicted Thy servant? The sufferings of the good in the path of duty I. Look at the afflictions of godly men in the path of duty as a fact. 1. Good men suffer affliction...
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 I...
Moses is Given Assistants
2 Corinthians 2:16 ; Deuteronomy 1:9-12 ; Exodus 18:18 ; Isaiah 9:6 ; Psalms 89:19 ; Zechariah 6:13
Troubles and Testings by the Way Numbers 11:1-20 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Our last study was a study of Numbers 9:1-23 . We are skipping over the 10th chapter and preparing to consider chapter 11....
To bear — The burden of providing for and satisfying them. Alone — Others were only assistant to him in smaller matters; but the harder and greater affairs, such as this unquestionably was, were br...