Numbers 11:18
Tell the people: Purify yourselves, for tomorrow you'll have meat to eat, because you were complaining and the Lord heard you saying, ‘Who's going to get us some meat to eat? We were better off in Egypt!’ So the Lord is going to provide you with meat to eat.
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In Context
19You're going to eat it, not for just a day or two, and not for five or ten or twenty days.
Cross References
Exodus 16:3“The Lord should've killed us back in Egypt!” the Israelites told them. “At least there we could sit down beside stewpots of meat and eat bread until we were full. But you had to bring all of us out here in the desert to starve us all to death!”
Exodus 19:10The Lord told Moses, “Go back down and prepare them spiritually today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes
Numbers 11:1It wasn't long before the people started to complain about how much they were suffering. When the Lord heard what they were saying, he became angry. Fire from the Lord burned them, destroying some on the edge of the camp.
Numbers 14:2All the Israelites went and complained to Moses and Aaron, telling them, “If only we'd died in Egypt, or here in this desert!
Judges 21:2The Israelites went to Bethel and sat there before God until the evening, crying loudly in distress.
Acts 7:39He was the one our fathers wouldn't listen to. They rejected him and decided to return to Egypt.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 11:17-24
Assistance Provided for Moses. ( b. c. 1490.) 16 And the Lord said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee. 17 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.… Read the whole commentary →