Numbers 11:3

3 So that place was named Taberah,^{[a] [b]} because the Lord's fire had blazed among them.

Numbers 11:3 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 11:3

And he called the name of the place Taberah
That is, "burning": Moses called it so; or it may be rendered impersonally, it was called ^F19 so in later times by the people:

because the fire of the Lord burnt among them;
to perpetuate the, memory of this kind of punishment for their sins, that it might be a terror and warning to others; and this history is indeed recorded for our caution in these last days, that we murmur not as these Israelites did, and were destroyed of the destroyer, ( 1 Corinthians 10:10 1 Corinthians 10:11 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 (arqyw) "et vocatum est", Tigurine version, Fagius, Piscator.

Numbers 11:3 In-Context

1 Now the people began complaining openly before the Lord about hardship. When the Lord heard, His anger burned, and the fire from the Lord blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

2 Then the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the Lord, and the fire died down.

3 So that place was named Taberah, because the Lord's fire had blazed among them.

4 Contemptible people among them had a strong craving [for other food]. The Israelites cried again and said, "Who will feed us meat?

5 We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

Footnotes

• [a]. blaze
• [b]. Dt 9:22