Numbers 11:33

While the flesh was yet betweene their teeth, before it was chewed, euen the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with an exceeding 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

32Then the people arose, al that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quailes: he that gathered the least, gathered ten Homers full, and they spred them abroade for their vse round about the hoste.

34So the name of the place was called, Kibroth-hattaauah: for there they buried the people that fell a lusting.

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Cross References

Numbers 16:49So they died of this plague fourtene thousande and seuen hundreth, beside them that dyed in the conspiracie of Korah.

Numbers 25:9And there died in that plague, foure and twentie thousand.

Psalms 78:26He caused the Eastwinde to passe in the heauen, and through his power he brought in the Southwinde.

Psalms 78:31When the wrath of God came euen vpon them, and slew the strongest of them, and smote downe the chosen men in 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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