Numbers 11:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes. ”

• Numbers 11:6 - 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 11:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  But now our soul [is] (d) dried away: [there is] nothing at all, beside this manna, [before] our eyes. (d) For the greedy lust of flesh.

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• Numbers 11:6 - 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 11:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  our soul is. Hebrew. nephesh = we [are]. App-13.

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• Numbers 11:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  6. But now our soul is dried away. They complain that they are almost wasted away with famine and hunger, whilst they are abundantly supplied with manna; in the same way as they had just bee...

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• Numbers 11:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

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• Numbers 11:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Our soul is dried away— This expression is of the same import with that of the Psalmist; my heart is—withered like grass. The word נפשׁ nepesh, as we have before observed, is often used for the...

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• Numbers 11:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Numbers 11:6 - 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 11:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  There is nothing at all... — Better, there is nothing, except that our eyes ( look ) upon, the manna.

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• Numbers 11:6 - 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 11:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Numbers 11:6 - 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 11:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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 pro...

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• Numbers 11:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But now our soul is dried away ,.... Meaning their bodies, which, for want of flesh food, they pretended had no moisture in them, or they were half starved, and in wasting and consuming circumstance...

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• Numbers 11:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  But now our soul [is] dried away: [there is] nothing at all, beside this manna, [before] our eyes. Ver. 6. There is nothing at all besides. ] The wheat of heaven was held a light meat, because lig...

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• Numbers 11:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The fish which we did eat freely Either without price, for fish was very plentiful, and fishing there free, or at a very small price. Our soul Either our life, as the term signifies, Genesis 9:5...

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• Numbers 11:6 - 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 11:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        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...

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• Numbers 11:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Our soul ; either, 1. Our life , as the soul signifies, Genesis 9:5 Psalms 33:19 Job 36:14 ; or, 2. Our body , which is oft signified by the soul, as Psalms 16:10 Psalms 35:12 , Psalms...

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• Numbers 11:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Numbers 11:6 - 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 11:6 - Scofield Reference Notes

  manna ( See Scofield) - ( Exodus 16:35 ).

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• Numbers 11:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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 bre...

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• Numbers 11:6 - 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 11:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

  There is nothing at all, beside this manna. The manna despised I. The complaining of the Israelites in this case was very reprehensible, as it manifested a state of aggravated neglect of the pe...

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• Numbers 11:6 - 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 11:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The People Lust for Flesh

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• Numbers 11:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Samuel 13:4 ; Numbers 21:5

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• Numbers 11:6 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  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....

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• Numbers 11:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Our soul — Either our life, as the soul signifies, Genesis 9:5 , or our body, which is often signified by the soul. Dried away — Is withered and pines away; which possibly might be true, through e...

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