33And 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.
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They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, …
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. …
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 31-35)God, having performed his promise to Moses by giving him assessors in the government, thereby proving the power he has over the spirits of men by his Spirit, he here performs his promise to the people by giving them flesh, proving thereby his power over the inferior creatures and his dominion in the kingdom of nature. Observe, 1. How the people were gratified with flesh in abundance: A wind (a sou…
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