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Commentaries on Numbers 11:19

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Numbers 11 This chapter informs us of the complaints of the people of Israel, which brought the fire of the Lord upon them, and consumed many of them; and which, at the intercession of Moses, was quenched, and the place from thence called Taberah, Numbers 11:1; and of the lusting of the mixed multitude after flesh, to increase which, they called to mind their food in Egypt; and to...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

Ye shall not eat one day,.... Only, as in Exodus 16:12; nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; but even thirty days, a whole month, as in Numbers 11:20.

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

Hitherto things had gone pretty well in Israel; little interruption had been given to the methods of God's favour to them since the matter of the golden calf; the people seemed teachable in marshalling and purifying the camp, the princes devout and generous in dedicating the altar, and there was good hope that they would be in Canaan presently. But at this chapter begins a melancholy scene; the...