Numbers 11:34 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 11:34

So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

BSB

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ASV

And the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people that lusted.

KJV

And he called the name of that place Kibroth–hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

AGAINST JOVINIAN 2.17 (420)

How is it that the graves of lust where the people fell in their devotion to flesh remain even to this day in the wilderness? Do we not read that the stupid people gorged themselves with quails until the wrath of God came upon them?

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Kibroth-hattaavah - Hebrew. the graves of lust, that is, of the men that lusted, as it here follows. And it notes that the plague did not seize upon all that eat of the quails, for then all had been destroyed, but only upon those who were inordinate both in the desire and use of them.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Kibroth-hattaavah - The graves of lust; and thus their scandalous crime was perpetuated by the name of the place. 1. St. Jude speaks of persons who were murmurers and complainers, walking after their own lusts, Jud 1:16, and seems to have this people particularly in view, whom the sacred text calls μεμψιμοιροι, complainers of their lot. They could never be satisfied; even God himself could not please them, because they were ever preferring their own wisdom to his.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

It is evident, however, that the language describes the countless number of these quails. as it were two cubits high--Some have supposed that they fell on the ground above each other to that height--a supposition which would leave a vast quantity useless as food to the Israelites, who were forbidden to eat any animal that died of itself or from which the blood was not poured out.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּקְרָ֛א	vai.yik.Ra'	and someone called	H7121 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
שֵֽׁם־	shem-	[the] name of	H8034 →
הַמָּק֥וֹם	ha.ma.Kom	the place	H4725 →
הַה֖וּא	ha.Hu'	<the> that	H1931 →
קִבְר֣וֹת	kiv.Rot	Kibroth	H6914 →
הַֽתַּאֲוָ֑ה	ha.ta.'a.Vah	Hattaavah	H6914 →
כִּי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
שָׁם֙	sham	there	H8033 →
קָֽבְר֔וּ	ka.ve.Ru	they buried	H6912 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הָעָ֖ם	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →
הַמִּתְאַוִּֽים׃	ha.mit.'a.Vim	who craved	H183 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Corinthians 10:6
These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
leads to
- Numbers 11:4
  Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jude 1:7
  In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal…
- 2 Peter 2:6
  if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;
- 1 Corinthians 10:11
  Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
- Hebrews 4:11
  Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.
Through
Deuteronomy 9:22
You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.
leads to
- Exodus 17:7
  He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
- Numbers 11:1–5
  Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed…
Through
Numbers 33:16
They set out from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.
leads to
- Numbers 10:11–13
  On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony,

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06About Numbers

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

Related verses

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About Numbers