Topic
Kibroth-hattaavah
10 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
These works date from 1896–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Numbers 33:16Easton · ISBE · Nave A station where the Israelites were miraculously fed with quails
And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth-hattaavah.
- Deuteronomy 9:22Easton · ISBE · Nave A station where the Israelites were miraculously fed with quails
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
- Numbers 11:34Easton · ISBE
And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
- Numbers 33:17Easton · Nave A station where the Israelites were miraculously fed with quails
And they departed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.
- Numbers 11:1Easton
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.
- Numbers 11:2Easton
And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.
- Numbers 11:31–35Nave A station where the Israelites were miraculously fed with quails
¶ And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high…
- Numbers 11:35Easton
And the people journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.
- Psalms 78:30Easton
They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
- Psalms 78:31Easton
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 9 references
The graves of the longing or of lust, one of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness. It was probably in the Wady Murrah, and has been identified with the Erweis el-Ebeirig, where the remains of an ancient encampment have been found, about 30 miles north-east of Sinai, and exactly a day’s journey from ‘Ain Hudherah.
“Here began the troubles of the journey. First, complaints broke out among the people, probably at the heat, the toil, and the privations of the march; and then God at once punished them by lightning, which fell on the hinder part of the camp, and killed many persons, but ceased at the intercession of Moses (Num. 11:1, 2). Then a disgust fell on the multitude at having nothing to eat but the manna day after day, no change, no flesh, no fish, no high-flavoured vegetables, no luscious fruits...The people loathed the ‘light food,’ and cried out to Moses, ‘Give us flesh, give us flesh, that we may eat.’” In this emergency Moses, in despair, cried unto God. An answer came. God sent “a prodigious flight of quails, on which the people satiated their gluttonous appetite for a full month. Then punishment fell on them: they loathed the food which they had desired; it bred disease in them; the divine anger aggravated the disease into a plague, and a heavy mortality was the consequence. The dead were buried without the camp; and in memory of man’s sin and of the divine wrath this name, Kibroth-hattaavah, the Graves of Lust, was given to the place of their sepulchre” (Num. 11:34, 35; 33:16, 17; Deut. 9:22; comp. Ps. 78:30, 31)., Rawlinson’s Moses, p. 175. From this encampment they journeyed in a north-eastern direction to Hazeroth.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 3 references
kib-roth-ha-ta'-a-va, kib-roth (qibhroth ha-ta'awah "the graves of greed"): A desert camp of the Israelites, one day's journey from the wilderness of Sinai. There the people lusted for flesh to eat, and, a great number of quails being sent, a plague resulted; hence, the name (Nu 11:34; 33:16; De 9:22).
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 4 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → A station where the Israelites were miraculously fed with quails Nu 11:31-35; 33:16,17; De 9:22
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.