Numbers 11:1
Soon 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.
And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
Note complained: or, were as it were complainers
Note it displeased: Heb. it was evil in the ears of
The people were complaining in the ears of the Lord. When the Lord heard it, his anger burned; and the Lord’s fire burned among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.
And the people were as murmurers, speaking evil in the ears of Jehovah: and when Jehovah heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of Jehovah burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- And when
- Numbers 10:33; Numbers 20:2–5; Numbers 21:5; Exodus 15:23, 24; Exodus 16:2, 3, 7, 9; Exodus 17:2, 3; Deuteronomy 9:22; Lamentations 3:39; 1 Corinthians 10:10; Jude 1:16
- complained
- or, were as it were complainers. it displeasedthe Lord. Heb. it was evil in the ears of the Lord.
- Genesis 38:10; 2 Samuel 11:27; James 5:4
- and the fire
- Numbers 16:35; Leviticus 10:2; Deuteronomy 32:22; 2 Kings 1:12; Job 1:16; Psalm 78:21; Psalm 106:18; Isaiah 30:33; Isaiah 33:14; Nahum 1:5; Mark 9:43–49; Hebrews 12:29
- the uttermost
- Deuteronomy 25:18