TSK - NUMBERS 11

  1  The burning at Taberah quenched by Moses' prayer.
 4  The people lust for flesh, and loathe manna.
10  Moses complains of his charge.
16  God promises to divide his burden unto seventy elders, and
    to give the people flesh for a month.
21  Moses' faith is staggered.
31  Quails are given in wrath at Kibroth-hattaavah.


VERSE 1
- And when.
   * Nu 10:33; 20:2-5; 21:5 Ex 15:23,24; 16:2,3,7,9; 17:2,3 De 9:22
   * La 3:39 1Co 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.
   * Ge 38:10 2Sa 11:27 *marg:
   * Jas 4 5:4
- and the fire.
   * Nu 16:35 Le 10:2 De 32:22 2Ki 1:12 Job 1:16 Ps 78:21; 106:18
   * Isa 30:33; 33:14 Na 1:5 Mr 9:43-49 Heb 12:29
- the uttermost.
   * De 25:18


VERSE 2 
 - cried.
   * Nu 21:7 Ps 78:34,35 Jer 37:3; 42:2 Ac 8:24
- prayed.
   * Nu 14:13-20 Ge 18:23-33 Ex 32:10-14,31,32; 34:9 De 9:19,20
   * Ps 106:23 Isa 37:4 Jer 15:1 Am 7:2-6 Jas 16 5:16 1Jo 5:16
- the fire.
   * Nu 16:45-48 Heb 7:26 1Jo 2:1,2
- was quenched.  Heb. sunk.


VERSE 3 
 - Taberah.  that is, a burning.
   * De 9:22


VERSE 4 
 - the mixed.
   * Ex 12:38 Le 24:10,11 Ne 13:3
- fell a lusting.  Heb. lusted a lust.  the children.
   * 1Co 15:33
- wept again.  Heb. returned and wept.  Who shall.
   * Ps 78:18-20; 106:14 Ro 13:14 1Co 10:6


VERSE 5 
 - the fish.
   * Ex 16:3 Ps 17:14 Php 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, color, 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.

VERSE 6
    * Nu 21:5 2Sa 13:4


VERSE 7 
 - the manna.
   * Ex 16:14,15,31 1Co 1:23,24 Re 2:17
- color thereof as the color of.  Heb. eye of it as the eye
  of.  bdellium.
   * Ge 2:12


VERSE 8 
 - the people.
   * Ex 16:16-18 Joh 6:27,33-58
- baked it.
   * Ex 16:23
- taste of it.
   * Ex 16:31

VERSE 9
    * Ex 16:13,14 De 32:2 Ps 78:23-25; 105:40


VERSE 10 
 - weep throughout.
   * Nu 14:1,2; 16:27; 21:5 Ps 106:25
- the anger.
   * :1 De 32:22 Ps 78:21,59 Isa 5:25 Jer 17:4
- Moses.
   * Nu 12:3; 20:10-13 Ps 106:32,33; 139:21 Mr 3:5; 10:14


VERSE 11 
 - 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.

   * :15 Ex 17:4 De 1:12 Jer 15:10,18; 20:7-9,14-18 Mal 3:14
   * 2Co 11:28
- wherefore have.
   * Job 10:2 Ps 130:3; 143:2 La 3:22,23,39,40


VERSE 12 
 - Carry them.
   * Isa 40:11 Eze 34:23 Joh 10:11
- as a nursing.
   * Isa 49:15,23 Ga 4:19 1Th 2:7
- the land.
   * Ge 13:15; 22:16,17; 26:3; 50:24 Ex 13:5

VERSE 13
    * Mt 15:33 Mr 8:4; 9:23

VERSE 14
    * Ex 18:18 De 1:9-12 Ps 89:19 Isa 9:6 Zec 6:13 2Co 2:16


VERSE 15 
 - kill me.
   * 1Ki 19:4 Job 3:20-22; 6:8-10; 7:15 Jon 4:3,8,9 Php 1:20-24
   * Jas 4 1:4
- let me not.
   * Jer 15:18; 20:18 Zep 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."


VERSE 16 
 - seventy.
   * Ge 46:27 Ex 4:29; 24:1,9 Eze 8:11 Lu 10:1,17
- officers.
   * De 1:15; 16:18; 31:28


VERSE 17 
 - I will come.
   * :25; 12:5 Ge 11:5; 18:21 Ex 19:11,20; 34:5 Joh 3:13
- talk with.
   * Nu 12:8 Ge 17:3,22; 18:20-22,33
- I will take.
   * Nu 27:18 1Sa 10:6 2Ki 2:9,15 Ne 9:20 Isa 44:3; 59:20,21
   * Joe 2:28 Joh 7:39 Ro 8:9 1Co 2:12; 12:4-11 1Th 4:8 1Pe 1:22
   * Jude 1:19
- they shall.
   * Ex 18:22 Ac 6:3,4


VERSE 18 
 - Sanctify.
   * Ge 35:2 Ex 19:10,15 Jos 7:13
- ye have wept.
   * :1,4-6 Ex 16:3-7 Jud 21:2
- it was well.  See on ver.
   * :4,5; 14:2,3 Ac 7:39
   About a year before this, the people had been thus feasted for
  one day (Ex 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.


VERSE 19
   * :19


VERSE 20 
 - whole month.  Heb. month of days.
   * Ex 16:8,13
- and it.
   * Nu 21:5 Ps 78:27-30; 106:15 Pr 27:7
- despised.
   * 1Sa 2:30 2Sa 12:10 Mal 1:6 Ac 13:41 1Th 4:8

VERSE 21
    * Nu 1:46; 2:32 Ge 12:2 Ex 12:37; 38:26
   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.


VERSE 22
   * 2Ki 7:2 Mt 15:33 Mr 6:37; 8:4 Lu 1:18,34 Joh 6:6,7,9


VERSE 23 
 - 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.

   * Ge 18:14 Ps 78:41 Isa 50:2; 59:1 Mic 2:7 Mt 19:26 Lu 1:37
- thou shalt.
   * Nu 23:19 2Ki 7:2,17-19 Jer 44:28,29 Eze 12:25; 24:14 Mt 24:35


VERSE 24 
 - gathered.  See on ver.
   * :16,26


VERSE 25 
 - came down.
   * :17; 12:5 Ex 34:5; 40:38 Ps 99:7 Lu 9:34,35
- took.  See on ver.
   * :17 2Ki 2:15 Jas 17 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.

   * 1Sa 10:5,6,10; 19:20-24 Jer 36:5,6 Joe 2:28,29 Ac 2:17,18
   * Ac 11:28; 21:9-11 1Co 11:4,5; 14:1-3,32 2Pe 1:21


VERSE 26 
 - went not out.
   * Ex 3:11; 4:13,14 1Sa 10:22; 20:26 Jer 1:6; 36:5

VERSE 27


VERSE 28 
 - Joshua.  See on
   * Ex 17:9
- My Lord.
   * Mr 9:38,39 Lu 9:49,50 Joh 3:26


VERSE 29 
 - Enviest.
   * 1Co 3:3,21; 13:4 Php 2:3 Jas 3:14,15; 4:5; 5:9 1Pe 2:1
- would.
   * Ac 26:29 1Co 14:5 Php 1:15-18
- that the.
   * Mt 9:37,38 Lu 10:2

VERSE 30


VERSE 31 
 - a wind.
   * Ex 10:13,19; 15:10 Ps 135:7
- and brought.
   * Ex 16:13 Ps 78:26-29; 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 a‰re duobus
  cubitis altitudine super terram,} "and they flew in the air,
  at the height of two cubits above the ground."


VERSE 32 
 - homers.
   * Ex 16:36 Eze 45:11


VERSE 33 
 - And while.
   * Ps 78:30,31; 106:14,15
- smote.
   * Nu 16:49; 25:9 De 28:27


VERSE 34 
 - Kibroth-hattaavah.  that is, the graves of lust.
   * Nu 33:16 De 9:22 1Co 10:6


VERSE 35 
 - journeyed.
   * Nu 33:17
- unto Hazeroth.
   * Nu 12:16 De 1:1
- abode at.  Heb they were in, etc.



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