The People Complain. Now the people became like those who complain and whine about their hardships, and the LORD heard it; and when the LORD heard it, His anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and devoured those in the outlying parts of the camp. Num 11:1
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
12. Why did the flesh-lovers complain and what effect did this have upon Moses?
THE PEOPLE COMPLAIN
Now the people became like those who complain and whine about their hardships, and the LORD heard it; and when the LORD heard it, His anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and devoured those in the outlying parts of the camp.
So the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the LORD, the fire died out.
He named that place Taberah (the place of burning), because the fire of the LORD burned among them.
The rabble among them [who followed Israel from Egypt] had greedy desires [for familiar and delicious food], and the Israelites wept again and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?
We remember the fish we ate freely and without cost in Egypt, the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing at all [in the way of food] to be seen but this manna.”
The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.
The people went about and gathered it, and ground it in mills or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes with it; and it tasted like cakes baked with fresh [olive] oil.
When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna fell with it.
Now Moses heard the people weeping [in self-pity] throughout their families, every man at the doorway of his tent; and the anger of the LORD blazed hotly, and Moses regarded their behavior as evil.
So Moses said to the LORD, “Why have You been so hard on Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have placed the burden of all these people on me?
Was it I who conceived all these people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your arms as a nurse carries the nursing infant, to the land which You swore to their fathers’?
Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep before me and say, ‘Give us meat, so that we may eat.’
I am not able to carry all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.
So if this is the way You are going to deal with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Numbers 11:1-15
THE MURMURING FLESH-LOVERS
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 us beware of querulous complaints. See 1Co_10:10. Let us also guard against familiarity with those who have never known God’s regenerating grace. “The mixed multitude” was largely composed of Egyptians, whose evil example spread to the chosen people, Exo_12:38. When our religious life is low, we tire of angels’ food, and our hearts turn back to the world we have left.
Moses’ outcry is hardly to be wondered at. He was thoroughly overstrained by the immense demands of his life. But he ought not to have spoken as though the entire weight of the pilgrimage rested on him. His Almighty Friend was bearing and carrying them during “all the days of old.” See Isa_63:9. We must never look at our responsibilities apart from Him who makes all grace abound, 2Co_9:8.
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