Reader! do not overlook the weakness of Moses' faith in this instance. Is this the same person who at the LORD'S command fetched water from the very rock? Learn from hence what man is when left to himself, and what the same man may be when supported by divine aid. Philippians 4:13.
Occurrences at Kibroth-hattavah. Numbers 11:4 THE MIXT MULTITUDE - The word in the original resembles our “riff-raff,” and denotes a mob of people scraped together. It refers here to the multitude of...
II. THE JOURNEY STARTED: ISRAEL'S UNBELIEF, FAILURE AND PUNISHMENT 1. The Departure and the First Failure CHAPTER 10:11-36 _ 1. The cloud moves (Numbers 10:11)_ 2. The standard of the camp of Juda...
NUMBERS 11:4 (JE). THE PEOPLE'S LUST FOR FLESH AND MOSES-' COMPLAINT OF HIS EXCESSIVE BURDEN. This section is a combination of two narratives (from J and E), relating (1) a demand of the people for fl...
THEM. Some codices have. reading called _Sever_ (App-34), which reads "unto you"....
AND MOSES SAID, THE PEOPLE AMONGST WHOM I AM— There is a striking similarity between the present passage and the account we have in the Evangelists of our Saviour's feeding the multitude with the five...
E. BITTER EXPERIENCE AT THE GRAVES OF LUST (KIBROTH-HATTAAVAH), vv. 4-35 TEXT Numbers 11:4. And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and...
_AND MOSES SAID, THE PEOPLE, AMONG WHOM I AM, ARE SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND FOOTMEN; AND THOU HAST SAID, I WILL GIVE THEM FLESH, THAT THEY MAY EAT A WHOLE MONTH._ Moses said ... Shall the flocks and the h...
JOURNEYINGS FROM SINAI TO MOAB (NUMBERS 10:11 TO NUMBERS 22:1) After a stay at Sinai of nearly a year (cp. Numbers 10:11 with Exodus 19:1) the s
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 11 GOD SENDS FIRE – NUMBERS 11:1-3 V1 The people started to complain about their problems. The *LORD heard the
SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND FOOTMEN. — In Numbers 1:46 the number is stated to be 603,550; but here, as elsewhere, a round number is mentioned....
וַ יֹּאמֶר֮ מֹשֶׁה֒ שֵׁשׁ ־מֵאֹ֥ות אֶ֨לֶף֙ רַ
THE STRAIN OF THE DESERT JOURNEY Numbers 11:1 THE narrative has accompanied the march of Israel but a short way from the mount of God to some spot marked for an encampment by the ark of the covenant,...
GOD'S SPIRIT UPON THE SEVENTY Numbers 11:16 God's considerateness for His overwrought servant was very tender. He knows our frame and remembers that we are dust. He does not chide, nor keep His ange...
Here we enter upon the second section in the Book of Numbers, in which is revealed the failure of man. The first evidence was discontent, resulting unquestionably from the hardship of life. This was...
And Moses said, The people, (o) among whom I [am], [are] six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month. (o) Of whom I have charge....
_People, able to bear arms. (Haydock) --- In all there were above two millions. (Calmet)_...
The previous portion of the Book of Numbers, viewed as a history, has evidently a prefatory character, however important and divinely wise. It is in a great measure preparatory for that which we have...
21._And Moses said, The people among whom I am, are six hundred thousand. _Although Moses’ object was right, yet he fell into unbelief, and thus stumbled at the very threshold. His pious solicitude in...
We are now brought to turn our thoughts in another direction-to see the conduct of the people in the wilderness, and alas! what is it except a history of unfaithfulness and rebellion? Let us add, howe...
AND MOSES SAID,.... By way of objection to what God had promised, distrusting his power to perform: THE PEOPLE AMONGST WHOM I [AM]; among whom he dwelt, of whom he was a part, and over whom he was a...
And Moses said, The people, among whom I [am], [are] six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month. Ver. 21. _Six hundred thousand footmen....
_Six hundred thousand footmen_ Fit for war, besides women and children. That Moses speaks this as distrusting God's word, is evident; and that Moses was not remarkably punished for this as he was afte...
1 The burning at Taberah quenched by Moses prayer. 4 The people lust for flesh, and loth Manna. 10 Moses complayneth of his charge. 16 God diuideth his burden vnto seuentie Elders. 31 Quailes are...
MOSES IS GIVEN ASSISTANTS...
And Moses said, The people among whom I am are six hundred thousand footmen, so many able-bodied men alone; AND THOU HAST SAID, I WILL GIVE THEM FLESH THAT THEY MAY EAT A WHOLE MONTH. This was apparen...
COMPLAINT ANSWERED BY FIRE (vs.1-3) Israel had reason for profound thanksgiving to the Lord, as believers certainly have today. Yet now they complained (v.1) without any reason for it. It is sad when...
16-23 Moses is to choose such as he knew to be elders, that is, wise and experienced men. God promises to qualify them. If they were not found fit for the employ, they should be made fit. Even the di...
SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND FOOTMEN, fit for war, EXODUS 12:37, besides women, children, &c. That Moses speaks this as doubting or distrusting God's words is evident enough from NUMBERS 11:22,23. And that Mo...
Hitherto we have been occupied, in our study of this book, with God's mode of ordering and providing for His people in the wilderness. We have travelled over the first ten Chapter s and seen in them t...
Numbers 11:21 Moses H4872 said H559 (H8799) people H5971 among H7130 six H8337 hundred H3967 thousand H505 foot...
YAHWEH'S RESPONSE TO MOSES: THE APPOINTMENT OF THE SEVENTY ELDERS AND THE PEOPLE WILL HAVE FOOD (NUMBERS 11:16). At Moses' plea Yahweh graciously responded to both his problems, not by killing him, bu...
CONTENTS: Complaints about the manna and the consequences. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Eldad, Medad, Joshua. CONCLUSION: Though God graciously gives us leave to complain to Him when there is cause, yet...
Numbers 11:7. _The manna._ See Exodus 14:15. and 31. _Bdellium._ See Genesis 2:12; Exodus 28:19....
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 11:4 The people complain about the monotony of their diet of manna. What they really want, however, are the pleasures of EGYPT (vv. Numbers 11:4
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 11:16 Though God gives his people the MEAT they want, he punishes them for their ungrateful attitude. ⇐...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 11:1. “_And when the people complained,”_ etc. Margin: “the people were, as it were, complainers.” _Speaker’s Comm_.: “And the people were as those that complai...
EXPOSITION KIBROTH HATTAAVAH (Numbers 11:4). NUMBERS 11:4 THE MIXED MULTITUDE. Hebrew, _ha_-_saphsuph, _the gathered; the rift-raft, or rabble, which had followed the fortunes of Israel out of Egypt...
This time let's turn to Numbers chapter eleven. In reading Numbers eleven through twenty, I see a pattern emerging, a pattern of chronic complaining, as the people are now complaining against the Lord...
Exodus 12:37; Exodus 38:26; Genesis 12:2; Numbers 1:46; Numbers 2:32...
Six hundred thousand footmen — Fit for war, besides women and children. That Moses speaks this as distrusting God's word is evident; and that Moses was not remarkably punished for this as he was after...