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Numbers 11:1

King James Version (KJV)

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Numbers 11:1

Verse 1 of 35

Scripture focus

And [when] the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard [it]; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed [them that were] in the uttermost parts of the camp.

Numbers 11:1 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Numbers 11:1

Theological / Devotional

The people complained. Literally, they “were as murmurers of evil.” That is, evil in the sense of misfortune, unhappiness. The wilderness probably appeared to them to be a deathtrap. Badly frightened by their own imagination, they began to predict all kinds of evils that would befall them there.

Uttermost parts. The mixed multitudes (see on v. 4) were on the fringes of the camp, for the arrangement by tribes (ch. 2) left them no other place.

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