Numbers 11:34 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah:d because there they buried the people that lusted. ”

• Numbers 11:34 - 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...

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• Numbers 11:34 - 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...

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• Numbers 11:34 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Kibroth-hattaavah. Hebrew graves of lust.

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• Numbers 11:34 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  34. And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah. It was requisite that some memorial of so great a sin should exist, that the sons might not imitate their fathers. Heretofore God...

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• Numbers 11:34 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted. Kibroth-hattaavah - The graves of lust; and thus their scandalous crime was perpetuated by the...

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• Numbers 11:34 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Kibroth-hattaavah— The reason of which name, as usual, is given in the next clause; because there they buried the people that lusted. REFLECTIONS.— The people now obtain their desire, and su...

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• Numbers 11:34 - 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...

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• Numbers 11:34 - 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...

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• Numbers 11:34 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Kibroth-hattaavah — i.e., the graves of lust ‘or, desire ). In Numbers 33:16 , Kibroth-hattaavah is mentioned as the first station after the departure from Sinai, whereas it is obvious that the...

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• Numbers 11:34 - 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...

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• Numbers 11:34 - 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...

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• Numbers 11:34 - 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...

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• Numbers 11:34 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Kibroth Hattaavah means the graves of lust, 1 Corinthians 10:6 .

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• Numbers 11:34 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah ,.... That is, Moses called it so, or it was called by the children of Israel, and by others in later times, by this name, which signifies "the...

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• Numbers 11:34 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted. Ver. 34. They buried the people. ] Who, by a hasty testament, bequeathed this new name to t...

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• Numbers 11:34 - 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...

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• Numbers 11:34 - 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...

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• Numbers 11:34 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Kibroth-hattaavah, Heb. The graves of lust , i.e. of the men that lusted, as it here follows. The abstract for the concrete, which is frequent; as poverty , 2 Kings 24:14 , pride, Psalms 36:...

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• Numbers 11:34 - 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...

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• Numbers 11:34 - 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...

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• Numbers 11:34 - 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...

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• Numbers 11:34 - 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...

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• Numbers 11:34 - 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....

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• Numbers 11:34 - 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...

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• Numbers 11:34 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Quails are sent

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• Numbers 11:34 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 10:6 ; Deuteronomy 9:22 ; Numbers 33:16

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• Numbers 11:34 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Kibroth — hattaavah — Heb. the graves of lust, that is, of the men that lusted, as it here follows. And it notes that the plague did not seize upon all that eat of the quails, for then all had been...

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