Numbers 11:3

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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Taberah: that is, a burning, Deuteronomy 9:22

Cross-References

Genesis 11:4
"Come," they said, "let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth."

Genesis 11:6
And the LORD said, "If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

Genesis 11:7
Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech."

Genesis 11:18
When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.

Genesis 14:10
Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.

Exodus 1:14
and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.

Exodus 2:3
But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.

2 Samuel 12:31
David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

Psalms 64:5
They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. "Who will see them?" they say.

Proverbs 1:11
If they say, "Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 s 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.

s ויקרא "et vocatum est", Tigurine version, Fagius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Taberah - i. e. “burning:” not the name of a station, and accordingly not found in the list given in Numbers 33:0, but the name of the spot where the fire broke out. This incident might seem (compare Numbers 11:34) to have occurred at the station called, from another still more terrible event which shortly followed, Kibroth-hattaavah.