Numbers 11:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴And 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?

Numbers 11:4 —

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Cross-References

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1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
Exodus 12:38
And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
Psalms 106:14
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
Psalms 78:18-20
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. …
Nehemiah 13:3
Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Complaint Discontentment Doubting Eating Extravagance Fault Finding Gluttony

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-15)

These verses represent things sadly unhinged and out of order in Israel, both the people and the prince uneasy. I. Here is the people fretting, and speaking against God himself (as it is interpreted, Ps. 78:19), notwithstanding his glorious appearances both to them and for them. Observe, 1. Who were the criminals. (1.) The mixed multitude began, they fell a lusting, Num. 11:4. The rabble that came…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting--These consisted of Egyptians. [See on Ex 12:38.] To dream of banquets and plenty of animal food in the desert becomes a disease of the imagination; and to this excitement of the appetite no people are more liable than the natives of Egypt. But the Israelites participated in the same feelings and expressed dissatisfaction with the manna on…