Numbers 11:34

The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.

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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 the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the LORD’s anger burned against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.

35From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and they stayed at Hazeroth.

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Cross References

Numbers 33:16They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth Hattaavah.

1 Corinthians 10:6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.

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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