Numbers 11:34
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
American Standard Version (ASV)
And the name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people that lusted.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
So that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah; because there they put in the earth the bodies of the people who had given way to their desires.
Webster's Revision
And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
World English Bible
The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
English Revised Version (ERV)
And the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
Clarke's Numbers 11:34 Bible Commentary
Kibroth-hattaavah - The graves of lust; and thus their scandalous crime was perpetuated by the name of the place.
1. St. Jude speaks of persons who were murmurers and complainers, walking after their own lusts, Jde 1:16, and seems to have this people particularly in view, whom the sacred text calls μεμψιμοιροι, complainers of their lot. They could never be satisfied; even God himself could not please them, because they were ever preferring their own wisdom to his. God will save us in his own way, or not at all; because that way, being the plan of infinite wisdom, it is impossible that we can be saved in any other. How often have we professed to pray, "Thy will be done!" And how seldom, very seldom, have our hearts and lips corresponded! How careful should we be in all our prayers to ask nothing but what is perfectly consistent with the will of God! Many times our prayers and desires are such that, were they answered, our ruin would be inevitable. "Thy will be done!" is the greatest of all prayers; and he who would pray safely and successfully, must at least have the spirit of these words in all his petitions. The Israelites asked flesh when they should not have asked for it; God yields to their murmuring, and the death of multitudes of these murmurers was the consequence! We hear of such punishments, and yet walk in the same way, presuming on God's mercy, while we continue to provoke his justice. Let us settle it in our minds as an indisputable truth, that God is better acquainted with our wants than we are ourselves; that he knows infinitely better what we need; and that he is ever more ready to hear than we are to pray, and is wont to give more than we can desire or deserve.
2. In no case has God at any time withheld from his meanest followers any of the spiritual or temporal mercies they needed. Were he to call us to travel through a wilderness, he would send us bread from heaven, or cause the wilderness to smile and blossom as the rose. How strange is it that we will neither believe that God has worked, or will work, unless we see him working!
Barnes's Numbers 11:34 Bible Commentary
(Kibroth-hattaavah has been identified by Palmer with the extensive remains, graves, etc., at Erweis El Ebeirig, and Hazeroth "enclosures" with Ain Hadherah.)
Wesley's Numbers 11:34 Bible Commentary
11:34 Kibroth - hattaavah - Heb. the graves of lust, that is, of the men that lusted, as it here follows. And it notes that the plague did not seize upon all that eat of the quails, for then all had been destroyed, but only upon those who were inordinate both in the desire and use of them.