Numbers 11:3

And he called the name of that place Burning (or And they called that place Taberah), for the fire of the Lord was kindled against them (there).

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.

In Context

2And when the people had cried to Moses, Moses prayed [to] the Lord, and the fire was quenched.

4And the common people of men and women, that had gone up with them, burnt with desire of flesh (or burnt with desire for flesh), and they sat, and wept, with the sons of Israel joined together with them, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

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Cross References

Numbers 16:35But also fire went out from the Lord, and killed (the) twain hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

Psalms 78:21Therefore the Lord heard, and delayed; and fire was kindled in Jacob, and the ire of God ascended on Israel. (And so the Lord heard them, and was angry; and fire was kindled against the people of Jacob, yea, God’s anger descended upon the people of Israel.)

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 →

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