Numbers 11:3

3 And they called ye name of the place Tabera because the fyre of the Lorde burnt amonge 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 And the people waxed vnpacient vnd it displeased the eares of the Lorde. And when the Lorde herde it he was wroth and the fyre of the Lorde burnt amonge them and consumed the vtter most of the hoste.

2 And the people cried vnto Moses and he made intercession vnto the Lorde and the fyre qwenched.

3 And they called ye name of the place Tabera because the fyre of the Lorde burnt amonge them.

4 And the rascall people that was amonge them fell a lustynge And the childern of Ysrael also went to and wepte and sayde: who shall geue us flesh to eate?

5 we remembre the fysh which we shulde eate in Egipte for noughte and of the Cucumbers and melouns lekes onyouns and garleke.