Numbers 11:2

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp. ²And the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.³So that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.

Bible Verse Review
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cried: Numbers 21:7, Psalms 78:34, Psalms 78:35, Jeremiah 37:3, Jeremiah 42:2, Acts 8:24

prayed: Numbers 14:13-20, Genesis 18:23-33, Exodus 32:10-14, Exodus 32:31, Exodus 32:32, Exodus 34:9, Deuteronomy 9:19, Deuteronomy 9:20, Psalms 106:23, Isaiah 37:4, Jeremiah 15:1, Amos 7:2-6, James 5:16, 1 John 5:16

the fire: Numbers 16:45-48, Hebrews 7:26, 1 John 2:1, 1 John 2:2

was quenched: Heb. sunk

Cross-References

Genesis 10:10
His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 11:9
That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

Genesis 13:11
So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.

Genesis 14:1
In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim

Isaiah 11:11
On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

Daniel 1:2
And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them into the treasury of his god.

Zechariah 5:11
"To build a house for it in the land of Shinar," he told me. "And when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its pedestal."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the people cried unto Moses,.... And entreated him to pray for them, being frightened at the fire which consumed many of them, lest it should spread and become general among them:

and when Moses prayed unto the Lord; as he did, in which he was a type of Christ, the mediator between God and man, the advocate of his people, an intercessor for transgressors:

the fire was quenched; it stopped and proceeded no further; as through Christ's mediation God is pacified with his people for all that they have done, and his wrath, and all the effects of it, are turned away from them, and entirely cease with respect to them; or it "sunk down" r into its place, as the Targum of Jonathan, as if it rose out of the earth. This may serve to confirm the notion of its being a burning wind, to which the idea of sinking down and subsiding well agrees.

r תשקע "sunk down", so Ainsworth; "compressus est", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius "resedit", Tigurine version.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 11:2. The fire was quenched — Was sunk, or swallowed up, as in the margin. The plague, of whatever sort, ceased to act, and the people had respite.