SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:34
Y llamó el nombre de aquel lugar Kibrot-hataava, por cuanto allí sepultaron al pueblo codicioso.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:34
Verse 34. 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, Jude 16, and seems to have this people particularly in view, whom the sacred text calls memyimoiroi, 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. God will save us in his own way, or not at all; because that way, being the plan of infinite wisdom, it is impossible that we can be saved in any other. How often have we professed to pray, "Thy will be done!" And how seldom, very seldom, have our hearts and lips corresponded! How careful should we be in all our prayers to ask nothing but what is perfectly consistent with the will of God! Many times our prayers and desires are such that, were they answered, our ruin would be inevitable. "THY will be done!" is the greatest of all prayers; and he who would pray safely and successfully, must at least have the spirit of these words in all his petitions. The Israelites asked flesh when they should not have asked for it; God yields to their murmuring, and the death of multitudes of these murmurers was the consequence! We hear of such punishments, and yet walk in the same way, presuming on God's mercy, while we continue to provoke his justice. Let us settle it in our minds as an indisputable truth, that God is better acquainted with our wants than we are ourselves; that he knows infinitely better what we need; and that he is ever more ready to hear than we are to pray, and is wont to give more than we can desire or deserve.
2. In no case has God at any time withheld from his meanest followers any of the spiritual or temporal mercies they needed. Were he to call us to travel through a wilderness, he would send us bread from heaven, or cause the wilderness to smile and blossom as the rose. How strange is it that we will neither believe that God has worked, or will work, unless we see him working!
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 34. And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah , etc.] 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 intemperance, and the judgment of God on them; or who were the most inordinate in their lust, and encouraged others in it, and were the ringleaders in the murmur and mutiny.
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
ויקרא 7121 את 853 שׁם 8034 המקום 4725 ההוא 1931 קברות התאוה 6914 כי 3588 שׁם 8033 קברו 6912 את 853 העם 5971 המתאוים׃ 183
