Quails and a plague. While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck them with a very severe plague. Num 11:33
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT13
The Experiences in the Wilderness
1.THE CAMP AT SINAI, Numbers 1:1-10:10
II. FROM SINAI TO THE JORDAN, Numbers 10:11-22:1
1. The Departure, the Seventy Elders and “the Graves of Lust,” Num_10:11-36; Num_11:1-35
14. How was the demand for flesh satisfied? how punished?
ELDERS APPOINTED TO AID MOSES
But two men had remained in the camp; one named Eldad and the other named Medad. The Spirit rested upon them (now they were among those who had been registered, but had not gone out to the Tent), and they prophesied in the camp.
So a young man ran and told Moses and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying [extolling the praises of God and declaring His will] in the camp.”
Then Joshua the son of Nun, the attendant of Moses from his youth, said, “My lord Moses, stop them!”
But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the LORD’S people were prophets and that the LORD would put His Spirit upon them!” [Luk_9:49-50]
Then Moses went back into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
QUAIL AND A PLAGUE
Now there went forth a wind from the LORD and it brought quails from the sea, and let them fall [so they flew low] beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and on the other side, all around the camp, about two cubits (three feet) deep on the surface of the ground.
The people spent all that day and all night and all the next day and caught and gathered the quail (the one who gathered least gathered ten homers) and they spread them out for themselves around the camp [to cure them by drying].
While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck them with a very severe plague.
So that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah (the graves of greediness), because there they buried the people who had been greedy [for more than the manna that God provided them]. [1Co_10:1-13]
From Kibroth-hattaavah the people set out for Hazeroth, and they remained at Hazeroth.
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Numbers 11:26-35
“THE GRAVES OF LUST”
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 the designated group of elders, and might not have gone out to the Tabernacle, as in Num_11:16. They remind us of the unordained and simple disciples of Act_11:19, etc. But there was no envy in Moses’ nature. He would have been only thankful if all had reached a degree of grace even beyond his own attainment.
The quails came. They flew in prodigious flocks, which darkened the air. Exhausted by their long flight, they hovered within three feet of the ground, and so were easily captured. But the passionate haste in eating brought its own terrible nemesis to the Israelites. The story became engraved in the very name given to their halting place, Psa_106:15. My soul, beware lest thou also be precipitated by thy passionate desires into that gravel Gal_5:17.
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