What does Numbers 11:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And when the people complained,a 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."
CHAPTER XI _The people complain, the Lord is displeased, and many of them_ _are consumed by fire_, 1. _Moses intercedes for them, and the fire is quenched_, 2. _The place is called_ Taberah, 3. _...
See the marginal rendering. They murmured against the privations of the march. THE FIRE OF THE LORD - Probably lightning; compare Psalms 78:21. IN THE UTTERMOST PARTS - Rather, in the end. The fire...
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...
( JE). THE CHASTISEMENT OF THE PEOPLE AT TABERAH. The occasion was discontent at some hardship, the nature of which is not explained. The agency by which the discontent was punished was probably light...
COMPLAINED. Hebrew were as complainers, Psalms 78:19. In this word another inverted _nun_ (, _n),_ to mark the fact of the People's turning back in their hearts. See note on Numbers 10:35. IT DISPLEA...
AND WHEN THE PEOPLE COMPLAINED— The _when_ inserted here much flattens the sense, and leads the mind to wrong ideas respecting this event. Read it thus, exactly conformable to the Hebrew, and the spir...
D. COMPLAINT AND PUNISHMENT AT TABERAH (NUMBERS 11:1-3) TEXT Numbers 11:1. And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of t...
_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...
11:1 evil (b-13) Or 'that the people became like men complaining of evil.'...
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 signal is given for the breaking up of the camp. This sec...
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 them. He...
XI. (1) AND WHEN THE PEOPLE COMPLAINED... — Better, _And the people were as those who complained_ (or _murmured_)_,_ (which was) _evil in the ears of the Lord_. The LXX. has, “And the people murmured...
וַ יְהִ֤י הָ עָם֙ כְּ מִתְאֹ֣נְנִ֔ים רַ֖ע בְּ אָזְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַ יִּשְׁמַ֤ע יְהוָה֙ וַ...
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...
THE MURMURING FLESH-LOVERS Numbers 11:1 We cannot wonder at the people's murmuring. They were unaccustomed to the fatigues of the desert, and had not realized the length of the journey. Let us bewar...
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...
_Fatigue. Hebrew simply, "and the people were like those who complain of evil, or who seek pretexts, inwardly, in the ears of the Lord." St. Jerome explains this evil to mean the fatigue of the journe...
CONTENTS This Chapter contains a melancholy relation of Israel's disobedience, and the LORD'S displeasure. The people murmur. Moses' meekness forsakes him; and in his fretfulness he ventures to expos...
It is impossible to look at this book ever so cursorily without feeling the difference of the atmosphere from that of Leviticus. And this is so much the more striking because it cannot be fairly doubt...
_THE SIN OF DISCONTENT_ ‘The people complained.’ Numbers 11:1 I. WE CANNOT WONDER AT THE PEOPLE MURMURING, as they were unaccustomed to the fatigues of the desert, and it seemed so far to the land...
1._And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord. _(11) The ambiguous signification of the participle (12) causes the translators to twist this passage into a variety of meanings. Since the H...
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 [WHEN] THE PEOPLE COMPLAINED,.... Or "were as complainers" p; not merely like to such, but were truly and really complainers, the כ, "caph", here being not a note of similitude, but of truth and r...
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...
_The people complained_ Hebrew, _as it were, complained;_ that is, they began to mutter some complaints, and for a while, it seems, kept their discontent from coming to Moses's ear. The chief cause of...
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...
And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord; literally, "when the people were voicing their complaints over evil in the ears of Jehovah"; for the discomforts and inconveniences of even thes...
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 whe...
COMPLAINED: Or, were as it were complainers... IT DISPLEASED THE: _ Heb._ it was evil in the eyes of etc....
1-3 Here is the people's sin; they complained. See the sinfulness of sin, which takes occasion from the commandment to be provoking. The weakness of the law discovered sin, but could not destroy it; c...
NUMBERS CHAPTER 11 The murmuring of the people, for which the fire breaketh in upon them, NUMBERS 11:1. Moses prayeth to God; the fire is quenched, NUMBERS 11:2. The name of the place, and why called,...
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 11:1 people H5971 complained H596 (H8693) displeased H241 H7451 LORD H3068 LORD H3068 heard H8085 (H8799) anger H639 aroused H2734 (H8799) fire H784 LORD H3068 burned H1197 (H8799) consumed H3...
A SHARP WARNING ABOUT GRUMBLING. THE PEOPLE COMPLAIN AND ARE SMITTEN. MOSES INTERVENES (NUMBERS 11:1). It is interesting that even in so short a passage another chiastic formation is revealed. a The...
Numbers 11:1. _And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD:_ Interpreters cannot make out what they had to complain of. The curse of labour had been removed; they did not earn their bread...
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 11:16. _Gather unto me seventy men of the elders._ The Hebrews always had elders, as appears fr...
_The people complained._ AGAINST MURMURING I. A dissatisfied spirit causes displeasure to the Lord. 1. This we might infer from our own feelings, when dependents, children, servants, or receivers o...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 11:1 This is a general complaint by the people. As on other occasions, Moses’ intercession stops God’s judgment (Exodus 32:11, Exodus 32:31; Numbers 12:13; Numbers 14:11). ⇐ ⇔...
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 THE PLACE OF BURNING (Numbers 11:1). NUMBERS 11:1 AND WHEN THE PEOPLE COMPLAINED, it DISPLEASED THE LORD. There is no "when" in the original. It is literally, "And_ _the people were as co...
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 Lor...
1 Corinthians 10:10; 2 Kings 1:12; 2 Samuel 11:27; Deuteronomy 25:18; Deuteronomy 32:22; Deuteronomy 9:22; Exodus 15:23; Exodus 15:24; Exodus 16:2;...
TROUBLES AND TESTINGS BY THE WAY Numbers 11:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Our last study was a study of Numbers 9:1. We are skipping over the 10th chapter and preparing to consider chapter 11. There are, ho...
Complained — Or, murmured, the occasion whereof seems to be their last three days journey in a vast howling wilderness, and thereupon the remembrance of their long abode in the wilderness, and the fea...