Numbers 11:31
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| Overview - Numbers 11 | |
| 1 | The burning at Taberah quenched by Moses' prayer. |
| 4 | The people lust for flesh, and loathe manna. |
| 10 | Moses complains of his charge. |
| 16 | God promises to divide his burden unto seventy elders, and to give the people flesh for a month. |
| 21 | Moses' faith is staggered. |
| 31 | Quails are given in wrath at Kibroth-hattaavah. |
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Numbers 11:31 (King James Version)
And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
- a wind
- Exodus 10:13 Exodus 10:19 ; 15:10 Psalms 135:7
- and brought
- Exodus 16:13 ; Psalms 78:26-29 ; 105:40
- quails
- That the word {selav} means the quail, we have already had occasion to observe; to which we subjoin the authority of Mr. Maundrell, who visited Naplosa, (the ancient Sichem,) where the Samaritans live
- Mr. Maundrell asked their chief priest what sort of animal he took the {selav} to be. He answered, they were a sort of fowls; and, by the description Mr. Maundrell perceived he meant the same kind with our quails.
- a day's journey
- Hebrew the way of a day. and as it were two
- cubits. That is, as the Vulgate renders, {Volabantque in are duobus cubitis altitudine super terram,} "and they flew in the air, at the height of two cubits above the ground."