Numbers 11:3

3 They named the place Taberah (Blaze) because fire from God had blazed up against them. Camp Kibroth Hattaavah

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 The people fell to grumbling over their hard life. God heard. When he heard his anger flared; then fire blazed up and burned the outer boundaries of the camp.

2 The people cried out for help to Moses; Moses prayed to God and the fire died down.

3 They named the place Taberah (Blaze) because fire from God had blazed up against them. Camp Kibroth Hattaavah

4 The riff-raff among the people had a craving and soon they had the People of Israel whining, "Why can't we have meat?

5 We ate fish in Egypt - and got it free! - to say nothing of the cucumbers and melons, the leeks and onions and garlic.