Pam Padgett ... teacher
God fed the children of Israel in the wilderness with manna,
having the taste of fresh oil. But the people became discontent with what God provided and began to lust after
other food including flesh like they had in Egypt ...
Numbers 11:4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a
lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who
shall give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we did
eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks,
and the onions, and the garlick: 6 But now our soul is dried away:
there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes. 7 And
the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the
colour of bdellium. 8 And the people went about, and gathered it,
and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in
pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste
of fresh oil. 9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night,
the manna fell upon it. ... 10 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their
families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the
Lord was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
God
told Moses to tell the people that because they despised HIM and
questioned why they had left Egypt, HE would give them flesh to eat for
an entire month, so much that it would become loathsome to them ...
Numbers 11:18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves
against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the
ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it
was well with us in Egypt: therefore the Lord will give you flesh,
and ye shall eat. 19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor
five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; 20 But even a whole
month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome
unto you: because that ye have despised the Lord which is among
you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of
Egypt?
Moses, considering that there were 600,000 men, questioned how flesh could be provided for all of them ...
Numbers11:21 And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six
hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them
flesh, that they may eat a whole month. 22 Shall the flocks and
the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the
fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?
God had shown great power and wonders before Moses in Egypt to
deliver the children of Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, even
parting the sea for them to walk through on dry land. Had HIS hand become unable to do according to HIS word? Was God unable
to provide flesh for the people? ...
Numbers 11:23
And the Lord said unto Moses, Is the Lord 's hand waxed short?
thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or
not.
The hand of God had not waxed short and His word came to pass. Flesh was provided for the people. God caused a
wind to bring quails from the sea and let them fall a day's journey on
the sides of the camp, and 2 cubits deep (about 36 inches) ...
Numbers 11:31 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. 32 And the people stood up all
that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they
gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers:
and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the
camp.
God provided flesh as the people lusted for, and provided it in huge
quantity. However, HIS anger was against the people that lusted, and HE
smote them with a very great plague ...
Numbers 11:33 And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it
was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people,
and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague. 34 And he
called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they
buried the people that lusted.