He knew from all eternity that the ancient Israelites would complain in the wilderness about not having meat (longing again for their wonderful time of slavery in Egypt), and he knew (if the natural explanation was what actually happened) that quail would migrate across their path at precisely the time that this murmuring came about.Įgyptologist, archaeologist and evangelical Protestant, Kenneth A. Both are entirely in his capability, and either is an extraordinary event, showing his power (omnipotence) and/or his omniscience and sovereignty over nature. Now, as always, God can work through outright miracles - he could create a million quails on the spot and send them down to the complaining Hebrews - or he can marvelously arrange in his providence for lots of quails to appear right at the time when he said they would appear. Therefore the name of that place was called Kib’roth-hatta’avah, because there they buried the people who had the craving. While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague. And the people rose all that day, and all night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails he who gathered least gathered ten homers and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and it brought quails from the sea, and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the earth. You shall not eat one day, or two days, or five days, or 10 days, or 20 days, but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come forth out of Egypt?”. And say to the people, “Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat. Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, `Give us meat, that we may eat.’. There’s an interesting passage in Exodus 16 that mentions an appearance of quail in the context of the manna in the desert: And the LORD said to Moses, “I have heard the murmurings of the people of Israel say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread then you shall know that I am the LORD your God.’” In the evening quails came up and covered the camp …Įlsewhere, Numbers 11 says: Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving and the people of Israel also wept again, and said, “O that we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
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