Numbers 11:33

While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and Jehovah smote the people with a very great plague.

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In The King James Version

And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.

In Context

32And the people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.

34And the name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people that lusted.

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Cross References

Numbers 16:49Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.

Numbers 25:9And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.

Psalms 78:26He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens; And by his power he guided the south wind.

Psalms 78:31When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel.

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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