Numbers 11:33 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague. ”

Numbers 11:33 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 11:33 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Numbers 11:33 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

flesh. Compare Psalms 78:27-31 .
Numbers 11:33 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

33. And while the flesh was yet between their teeth. Moses does not specify any particular day; but only that God did not wait till satiety had produced disgust, but inflicted the punishment...
Numbers 11:33 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague. The wrath of the Lo...
Numbers 11:33 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, &c.— It is impossible to determine, as Calmet justly remarks, how many days they used this food, or what was the plague wherewith the Lord smote...
Numbers 11:33 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 sid...
Numbers 11:33 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Numbers 11:33 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

With a very great plague. — The noun, maccah. plague, is cognate to the verb which is rendered smote. It is frequently used of a stroke inflicted by God, as, e.g., pestilence or any epidemic...
Numbers 11:33 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Numbers 11:33 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“The Graves of Lust” Numbers 11:26-35 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 t...
Numbers 11:33 - 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...
Numbers 11:33 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Reader! behold again in this instance the awful consequence in having our carnal, ungovernable appetites gratified. LORD! do thou regulate our inordinate affections, and bring every thought and desir...
Numbers 11:33 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And while the flesh [was] yet between their teeth ,.... When they had just got it into their mouths, and were about to bite it: ere it was chewed ; or "cut off"; or cut into pieces by the "incisor...
Numbers 11:33 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Lord smote the people with a very great plague With a pestilence, say some, with a consumption, say others. But it seems more probable that it was by some untimely death, which was the effect o...
Numbers 11:33 - L. 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...
Numbers 11:33 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Quails. B. C. 1490. 31 And there went forth a wind from the L ORD , and brought qu...
Numbers 11:33 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Chewed, Heb. cut off , to wit, from their mouths, which is here understood, and expressed Joel 1:5 , i.e. ere it was taken away, as the flocks are said to be cut off from the fold , Habakkuk...
Numbers 11:33 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Yahweh Provides Meat From Heaven ( Numbers 11:31-35 ). 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...
Numbers 11:33 - 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 comp...
Numbers 11:33 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Numbers 11:31-34 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...
Numbers 11:33 - 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 . Numbers 11:16 . Gather unto me seventy men of the elders. The Hebrews always had elders, a...
Numbers 11:33 - The Biblical Illustrator

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....
Numbers 11:33 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Numbers 11:33 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Quails are sent
Numbers 11:33 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 28:27 ; Numbers 16:49 ; Numbers 25:9 ; Psalms 106:14 ; Psalms 106:15 ; Psalms 78:30 ; Psalms 78:31
Numbers 11:33 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Chewed — Heb. cut off, namely from their mouths. A very great plague — Probably the pestilence. But the sense is, before they had done eating their quails, which lasted for a month. Why did God so...

Numbers 11:33 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Numbers 11:33 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 11:33 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Numbers 11:33 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 11:33 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 11:33 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 11:33 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 11:33 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 11:33 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Numbers 11:33 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 11:33 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Numbers 11:33 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 11:33 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 11:33 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 11:33 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 11:33 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 11:33 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 11:33 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 11:33 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 11:33 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 11:33 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Numbers 11:33 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 11:33 - The Biblical Illustrator

Numbers 11:33 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 11:33 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 11:33 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 11:33 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes