Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
MANNA LOATHED. (Num. 11:1-35)
When the people complained it displeased the Lord, etc.--Unaccustomed to the fatigues of travel and wandering into the depths of a desert, less mountainous but far more gloomy and desolate than that of Sinai, without any near prospect of the rich country that had been promised, they fell into a state of vehement discontent, which was vented at these irksome and fruitless journeyings. The displeasure of God was manifested against the ungrateful complainers by fire sent in an extraordinary manner. It is worthy of notice, however, that the discontent seems to have been confined to the extremities of the camp, where, in all likelihood, "the mixed multitude" [see on Exodus 12:38] had their station. At the intercession of Moses, the appalling judgment ceased [Numbers 11:2], and the name given to the place, "Taberah" (a burning), remained ever after a monument of national sin and punishment. (See on Numbers 11:34).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Psalms 78:21
Jude 1:16
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