Numbers 11:4
Some foreign people began to camp with Israel's descendants. They wanted better food to eat. Then the people of Israel began to weep and say, “Who will give us meat to eat?
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3That place was named Taberah, because Yahweh's fire burned among them.
Cross References
Exodus 16:3The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by Yahweh's hand in the land of Egypt when we were sitting by the pots of meat and were eating bread to the full. For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill our whole community with hunger.”
Leviticus 24:10Now it happened that the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went among the people of Israel. This son of the Israelite woman fought against an Israelite man in the camp.
Numbers 14:1That night all the community wept loudly.
Nehemiah 13:3As soon as they heard the law, they separated out from Israel every foreign person.
Psalms 78:20See, when he struck the rock, waters gushed out 1 and streams overflowed. 1 But can he give bread also? 1 Will he provide meat for his people?” 1
Romans 13:14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its lusts.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 11:2-4
The Murmurings of the Israelites. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord : and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp. 2 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the Lord , the fire was quenched. 3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them. Here is, I. The people's sin. They complained, v. 1 . They were,… Read the whole commentary →