Numbers 11:34

34 So that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving.

Numbers 11:34 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 11:34

And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah
That is, Moses called it so, or it was called by the children of Israel, and by others in later times, by this name, which signifies "the graves of lust"; dug by lust, or which lust was the cause and occasion of, and where those that indulged it were buried, as follows:

because there they buried the people that lusted;
not all that lusted, for the lusting was pretty general; but all that died through their gluttony and intemperance, and the judgment of God on them; or who were the most inordinate in their lust, and encouraged others in it, and were the ringleaders in the murmur and mutiny.

Numbers 11:34 In-Context

32 So the people worked all that day and night and all the next day, gathering the quails; the least anyone gathered was ten homers; and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.
33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.
34 So that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving.
35 From Kibroth-hattaavah the people journeyed to Hazeroth.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. That is [Graves of craving]
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