Numbers 11:34

So that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah; because there they put in the earth the bodies of the people who had given way to their desires.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.

In Context

33But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was tasted, the wrath of the Lord was moved against the people and he sent a great outburst of disease on them.

35From Kibroth-hattaavah the people went on to Hazeroth; and there they put up their tents.

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Cross References

Numbers 33:16And they went on from the waste land of Sinai and put up their tents in Kibroth-hattaavah.

1 Corinthians 10:6Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 11:32-35

The Quails. ( b. c. 1490.) 31 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 side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. 32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round… Read the whole commentary →

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