“ And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it. ”
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...
dew fell. Manna between the two dews, compare Exodus 16:13 ; Exodus 16:14 .
And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
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...
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...
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...
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...
And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night ,.... As it usually, and even constantly did: the manna fell upon it ; as constantly, and had thereby a clean place to fall on; and then another de...
And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it. Ver. 9. And when the dew fell. ] As manna fell in the dew, so doth the Spirit descend in and by the word preached. Gal 3:2...
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...
And then the dew fell again upon it and covered it, as we see Exodus 16:13,14 ; so the manna lay hid as it were between two beds of dew. Hence the phrase of hidden manna Revelation 2:17 .
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 11:1 . 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...
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...
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...
The People Lust for Flesh
Deuteronomy 32:2 ; Exodus 16:13 ; Exodus 16:14 ; Psalms 105:40 ; Psalms 78:23-25
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....