Chapter 11

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And when Num 10:33, Num 20:2-5, Num 21:5; Exod 15:23-24, Exod 16:2-3, Exod 16:7, Exod 16:9, Exod 17:2-3; Deut 9:22; Lam 3:39; 1Cor 10:10; Jude 1:16

complained or, were as it were complainers

it displeased the Lord Heb. it was evil in the ears of the Lord, Gen 38:10; 2Sam 11:27 *marg. Jas 5:4

and the fire Num 16:35; Lev 10:2; Deut 32:22; 2Kgs 1:12; Job 1:16; Ps 78:21, Ps 106:18; Isa 30:33, Isa 33:14; Nah 1:5; Mark 9:43-49; Heb 12:29

the uttermost Deut 25:18


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cried Num 21:7; Ps 78:34-35; Jer 37:3, Jer 42:2; Acts 8:24

prayed Num 14:13-20; Gen 18:23-33; Exod 32:10-14, Exod 32:31-32, Exod 34:9; Deut 9:19-20; Ps 106:23; Isa 37:4; Jer 15:1; Amos 7:2-6; Jas 5:16; 1John 5:16

the fire Num 16:45-48; Heb 7:26; 1John 2:1-2

was quenched Heb. sunk


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Taberah that is, a burning, Deut 9:22


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the mixed Exod 12:38; Lev 24:10-11; Neh 13:3

fell a lusting Heb. lusted a lust

the children 1Cor 15:33

wept again Heb. returned and wept

Who shall Ps 78:18-20, Ps 106:14; Rom 13:14; 1Cor 10:6


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the fish Exod 16:3; Ps 17:14; Phil 3:19

the cucumbers In Hebrew, kishshuim, in Arabic, kiththa, Chaldee, keta, and Syriac, kati, a species of cucumber peculiar to Egypt, smooth, of a longish cylindrical shape, and about a foot long. Prosper Alpinus says that it differs from the common sort by its size, colour, and softness; that its leaves are smaller, whiter, softer, and rounder; its fruit larger, greener, smoother, softer, sweeter, and more easy of digestion than ours. Hasselquist describes it in the same manner; and adds, that it is very little watery, but firm like a melon, sweet and cool to the taste, but not so cold as the watermelon, which is meant by the avutichim of the text.


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Num 21:5; 2Sam 13:4


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the manna Exod 16:14-15, Exod 16:31; 1Cor 1:23-24; Rev 2:17

colour thereof as the colour of Heb. eye of it as the eye of

bdellium Gen 2:12


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the people Exod 16:16-18; John 6:27, John 6:33-58

baked it Exod 16:23

taste of it Exod 16:31


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Exod 16:13-14; Deut 32:2; Ps 78:23-25, Ps 105:40


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weep throughout Num 14:1-2, Num 16:27, Num 21:5; Ps 106:25

the anger Num 11:1; Deut 32:22; Ps 78:21, Ps 78:59; Isa 5:25; Jer 17:4

Moses Num 12:3, Num 20:10-13; Ps 106:32-33, Ps 139:21; Mark 3:5, Mark 10:14


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Wherefore hast thou The complaint and remonstrance of Moses in these verses serve at once to shew the deeply distressed state of his mind, and the degradation of the minds of the people. Num 11:15; Exod 17:4; Deut 1:12; Jer 15:10, Jer 15:18, Jer 20:7-9, Jer 20:14-18; Mal 3:14; 2Cor 11:28

wherefore have Job 10:2; Ps 130:3, Ps 143:2; Lam 3:22-23, Lam 3:39-40


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Carry them Isa 40:11; Ezek 34:23; John 10:11

as a nursing Isa 49:15, Isa 49:23; Gal 4:19; 1Thess 2:7

the land Gen 13:15, Gen 22:16-17, Gen 26:3, Gen 50:24; Exod 13:5


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Matt 15:33; Mark 8:4, Mark 9:23


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Exod 18:18; Deut 1:9-12; Ps 89:19; Isa 9:6; Zech 6:13; 2Cor 2:16


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kill me 1Kgs 19:4; Job 3:20-22, Job 6:8-10, Job 7:15; Jonah 4:3, Jonah 4:8-9; Phil 1:20-24; Jas 1:4

let me not Jer 15:18, Jer 20:18; Zeph 3:15

my wretchedness Two of Dr. Kennicott's manuscripts read, "their wretchedness." The Jerusalem Targum has the same, and adds, by way of explanation, "who are thine own people."


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seventy Gen 46:27; Exod 4:29, Exod 24:1, Exod 24:9; Ezek 8:11; Luke 10:1, Luke 10:17

officers Deut 1:15, Deut 16:18, Deut 31:28


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I will come Num 11:25, Num 12:5; Gen 11:5, Gen 18:21; Exod 19:11, Exod 19:20, Exod 34:5; John 3:13

talk with Num 12:8; Gen 17:3, Gen 17:22, Gen 18:20-22, Gen 18:33

I will take Num 27:18; 1Sam 10:6; 2Kgs 2:9, 2Kgs 2:15; Neh 9:20; Isa 44:3, Isa 59:20-21; Joel 2:28; John 7:39; Rom 8:9; 1Cor 2:12, 1Cor 12:4-11; 1Thess 4:8; 1Pet 1:22; Jude 1:19

they shall Exod 18:22; Acts 6:3-4


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Sanctify Gen 35:2; Exod 19:10, Exod 19:15; Josh 7:13

ye have wept Num 11:1, Num 11:4-6; Exod 16:3-7; Judg 21:2

it was well Num 11:4-5, Num 14:2-3; Acts 7:39


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About a year before this, the people had been thus feasted for one day (Exod 16:13); but now such plenty was to be afforded them for a whole month, and they should use it so greedily, that at last they should entirely loathe the food for which they had so inordinately craved.


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whole month Heb. month of days, Exod 16:8, Exod 16:13

and it Num 21:5; Ps 78:27-30, Ps 106:15; Prov 27:7

despised 1Sam 2:30; 2Sam 12:10; Mal 1:6; Acts 13:41; 1Thess 4:8


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Num 1:46, Num 2:32; Gen 12:2; Exod 12:37, Exod 38:26


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There is certainly a considerable measure of weakness and unbelief manifested in these complaints and questions of Moses; but his conduct appears at the same time so very simple, honest, and affectionate, that we cannot but admire it, while we wonder that he had not stronger confidence in that God, whose stupendous miracles he had so often witnessed in Egypt.

2Kgs 7:2; Matt 15:33; Mark 6:37, Mark 8:4; Luke 1:18, Luke 1:34; John 6:6-7, John 6:9


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Is the Lord's That is, "Is the power of the Lord diminished?" That power which has been so signally displayed on your behalf, and which is as unchangeable as it is unlimited. Gen 18:14; Ps 78:41; Isa 50:2, Isa 59:1; Mic 2:7; Matt 19:26; Luke 1:37

thou shalt Num 23:19; 2Kgs 7:2, 2Kgs 7:17-19; Jer 44:28-29; Ezek 12:25, Ezek 24:14; Matt 24:35


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gathered Num 11:16, Num 11:26


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came down Num 11:17, Num 12:5; Exod 34:5, Exod 40:38; Ps 99:7; Luke 9:34-35

took Num 11:17; 2Kgs 2:15; Jas 1:17

gave it From this place, Origen and Theodoret take occasion to compare Moses to a lamp, at which seventy others were lighted, without any diminution of its lustre.

they prophesied By prophesying here we are to understand, their performing those civil and sacred functions for which they were qualified; exhorting the people to quiet and peaceable submission, and to trust and confidence in the providence of God. 1Sam 10:5-6, 1Sam 10:10, 1Sam 19:20-24; Jer 36:5-6; Joel 2:28-29; Acts 2:17-18; Acts 11:28, Acts 21:9-11; 1Cor 11:4-5, 1Cor 14:1-3, 1Cor 14:32; 2Pet 1:21


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went not out Exod 3:11, Exod 4:13-14; 1Sam 10:22, 1Sam 20:26; Jer 1:6, Jer 36:5


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Joshua Exod 17:9

My Lord Mark 9:38-39; Luke 9:49-50; John 3:26


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Enviest 1Cor 3:3, 1Cor 3:21, 1Cor 13:4; Phil 2:3; Jas 3:14-15, Jas 4:5, Jas 5:9; 1Pet 2:1

would Acts 26:29; 1Cor 14:5; Phil 1:15-18

that the Matt 9:37-38; Luke 10:2


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a wind Exod 10:13, Exod 10:19, Exod 15:10; Ps 135:7

and brought Exod 16:13; Ps 78:26-29, Ps 105:40

quails That the word selav means the quail, we have already had occasion to observe; to which we subjoin the authority of Mr. Maundrell, who visited Naplosa (the ancient Sichem), where the Samaritans live. Mr. Maundrell asked their chief priest what sort of animal he took the selav to be. He answered, they were a sort of fowls; and, by the description Mr. Maundrell perceived he meant the same kind with our quails.

a day's journey Heb. the way of a day

and as it were two cubits That is, as the Vulgate renders, Volabantque in aere duobus cubitis altitudine super terram, "and they flew in the air, at the height of two cubits above the ground."


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homers Exod 16:36; Ezek 45:11


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And while Ps 78:30-31, Ps 106:14-15

smote Num 16:49, Num 25:9; Deut 28:27


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Kibrothhattaavah that is, the graves of lust, Num 33:16; Deut 9:22; 1Cor 10:6


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journeyed Num 33:17

unto Hazeroth Num 12:16; Deut 1:1

abode at Heb. they were in, etc.


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