SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:33
Aún estaba la carne entre los dientes de ellos, antes que fuese mascada, cuando el furor del SEÑOR se encendió en el pueblo, e hirió el SEÑOR al pueblo con una plaga muy grande.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:33
Verse 33. The wrath of the Lord was kindled] In what way, and with what effects, we cannot precisely determine. Some heavy judgment fell upon those murmurers and complainers, but of what kind the sacred writer says nothing.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 33. And while the flesh [was] yet between their teeth , etc.] 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 people: the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people ; for their lusting after flesh, and despising the manna: and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague ; the pestilence, as Aben Ezra; or with fire, as Bochart f144 , who gives the following reasons why the people were so severely punished now, and not before, when they murmured on a like account; because their sin’s were greater, and more aggravated, they falling again into the same sin which had been forgiven them; and besides, they were before pressed with famine, now they had a plenty of manna every day; and also were better instructed, having received the law, which was not yet given when they were just come out of Egypt. Sulpitius the historian says, 23,000 perished at this time.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 31-35 - God performed his promise to the people, in giving them flesh. How muc more diligent men are in collecting the meat that perishes, than i labouring for meat which endures to everlasting life! We ar quick-sighted in the affairs of time; but stupidity blinds us as to the concerns of eternity. To pursue worldly advantages, we need n arguments; but when we are to secure the true riches, then we are all forgetfulness. Those who are under the power of a carnal mind, wil have their lusts fulfilled, though it be to the certain damage and rui of their precious souls. They paid dearly for their feasts. God ofte grants the desires of sinners in wrath, while he denies the desires of his own people in love. What we unduly desire, if we obtain it, we have reason to fear, will be some way or other a grief and cross to us. An what multitudes there are in all places, who shorten their lives by excess of one kind or other! Let us seek for those pleasures whic satisfy, but never surfeit; and which will endure for evermore __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
הבשׂר 1320 עודנו 5750 בין 996 שׁניהם 8127 טרם 2962 יכרת 3772 ואף 639 יהוה 3068 חרה 2734 בעם 5971 ויך 5221 יהוה 3068 בעם 5971 מכה 4347 רבה 7227 מאד׃ 3966
