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John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:30

And Moses got him into the camp ,.... From the door of the tabernacle, where he had been settling the elders in their office, and now betook himself to the camp of Israel, perhaps to look more particularly into the affair of Eldad and Medad, and settle that, and put them among the elders; for they were of them that were written, whose names were put down for elders in the paper Moses had written for that purpose, and in the summons that were given; or more generally to do public business, to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:31

And there went forth a wind from the Lord ,.... Both an east wind and a south wind, according to Psalm 78:26 ; either first one wind, and then another; one to bring the quails, or whatever are meant, to a certain point, and then the other to bring them to the camp of Israel; or a southeast wind, as the Jewish writers interpret it: however, it was not a common wind, but what was immediately raised by the Lord for the following purpose: and brought quails from the sea ; the Red sea, from... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:32

And the people stood up all that day ,.... The day on which they fell in the morning: and all that night ; the night following: and all the next day ; after that, even the space of thirty six hours: and they gathered the quails ; not took them flying, as the Jewish writers suggest, before observed, but from the earth where they fell, in order to lay them up as a provision for time to come; or otherwise, had they taken them only for present use, they would not have been so long... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:33

And while the flesh was yet between their teeth ,.... When they had just got it into their mouths, and were about to bite it: ere it was chewed ; or "cut off"; or cut into pieces by the "incisores", or fore teeth, and then ground by the "molares", or grinders, and so became fit to be swallowed. Both quails and locusts were eaten as food; the former is a fat and delicious fowl, and the latter, some sorts of them, at least, were allowed clean food for the Jews, and were fed on by many... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:34

And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah ,.... That is, Moses called it so, or it was called by the children of Israel, and by others in later times, by this name, which signifies "the graves of lust"; dug by lust, or which lust was the cause and occasion of, and where those that indulged it were buried, as follows: because there they buried the people that lusted ; not all that lusted, for the lusting was pretty general; but all that died through their gluttony and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:35

And the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah unto Hazeroth ,.... After having stayed there a month or more, as is gathered from Numbers 11:20 , and abode at Hazeroth ; at least seven days, as appears from Numbers 12:15 ; which, according to Bunting F7 Travels, p. 82. , was eight miles from Kibrothhattaavah, or Taberah, which were the same place. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 11:4

The mixed multitude - האספסף hasaphsuph , the collected or gathered people. Such as came out of Egypt with the Israelites; and are mentioned Exodus 12:38 . This mongrel people, who had comparatively little of the knowledge of God, feeling the difficulties and fatigues of the journey, were the first to complain; and then we find the children of Israel joined them in their complainings, and made a common cause with these demi-infidels. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 11:5

We remember, etc. - The choice aliments which those murmurers complained of having lost by their leaving Egypt, were the following: fish, cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic. A European may smile at such delicacies; but delicacies they were in that country. Their fish is excellent; their cucumbers and water melons highly salubrious and refreshing; and their onions, garlic, etc., exquisitely flavoured, differing as much from vegetables of the same species in these northern climes as... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 11:7

The manna was as coriander seed - Probably this short description is added to show the iniquity of the people in murmuring, while they had so adequate a provision. But the baseness of their minds appears in every part of their conduct. About the bdellium of the ancients the learned are not agreed; and I shall not trouble the reader with conjectures. See the note on Genesis 2:12 . Concerning the manna, see the notes on Exodus 16 (note). Numbers 11:11-15 . The complaint and remonstrance... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 11:17

I will take of the spirit which is upon thee - From this place Origen and Theodoret take occasion to compare Moses to a lamp, at which seventy others were lighted, without losing any of its brightness. To convince Moses that God had sufficiently qualified him for the work which he had given him to do, he tells him that of the gifts and graces which he has given him he will qualify seventy persons to bear the charge with him. This was probably intended as a gracious reproof. Query. Did not... read more

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