Numbers 11:4 KJV — MannaFest

Numbers 11:4

And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

KJV

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ASV

And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

WEB

Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?

YLT

And the rabble who are in its midst have lusted greatly, and the sons of Israel also turn back and weep, and say, `Who doth give us flesh?

DBT

And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted; and the children of Israel also wept again and said, Who will give us flesh to eat?

About this book

Old Testament

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Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.

Author: Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
Date: The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC

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1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
Exodus 12:38
And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Exodus 16:3
And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Psalms 106:14
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

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Note, A few factious, discontented, ill-natured people, may do a great deal of mischief in the best societies, if great care be not taken to discountenance them. Such as these are an untoward generation, from which it is our wisdom to save ourselves, Acts ii. (2.) Even the children of Israel took the infection, as we are informed,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

O how little honour has God in the world, when even the people which he formed for himself, to show forth his praise, were so much a dishonour to him! Therefore let none think that their external professions and privileges will be their security either against Satan's temptations to sin or God's judgments for sin. What was the crime: they lusted and murmured.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting--These consisted of Egyptians. [See on Ex 12:38.] To dream of banquets and plenty of animal food in the desert becomes a disease of the imagination; and to this excitement of the appetite no people are more liable than the natives of Egypt.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Connections1

Where this verse connects

Typology 1 Corinthians 10:10
Paul reads the whole murmuring cycle as typoi/warning for the church ('neither murmur ye'); frames why the wilderness episode matters typologically.
ASV; lens 19

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The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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