Numbers 11:34

And he called the name of that place, The Graves of the Demanders; because there they buried the people who demanded.

Targum Onkelos

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

33While yet the flesh was between their teeth, and they had not yet finished, the displeasure of the Lord was manifested strongly against the people, and the Lord inflicted death among the people with a very great mortality.

35From the Graves of the Demanders the people journeyed to Hatseroth, and they were in Hatseroth.

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Cross References

Numbers 33:16And they removed from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped at the Sepulchres of Desire.

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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