Unbelief and Its Punishment

1.How far did the Israelites travel after they left Sinai before they encamped again? .
2.How were they guided in selecting a place to camp?—
3.What did Moses say when the ark set forward? .
4.What did he say when it rested? .
5.When the people again complained, what followed? .
6.What does the psalmist say was the reason they were thus punished? .
7.What made this murmuring inexcusable? .
8.Is it any less excusable if God's people complain now? .
9.In the instance under consideration, how were the people saved? .
10.What was proved by that? .
11.Did this lesson prove sufficient to keep the people from murmuring? .
12.When Moses heard their murmurings, how did he feel? .
13.What provision did the Lord make to lighten his burden? .
14.What did he say the people should have? .
15.How abundantly did he say they should be supplied? .
16.What did Moses say of this great promise? .
17.What did the Lord reply to his implied doubt? .
18.How was the promise fulfilled? ; .
19.How did the people manifest their greed, and their distrust in God? ; .
20.What was the result? .
21.Did this cause the rest of the people to believe God? .

Notes

The rendering in our common version, which makes the quail to have been piled up "two cubits high upon the face of the earth," is uncalled for and unwarranted. The Revised Version gives the proper sense and rendering, by putting it, "about two cubits above the face of the earth." The Vulgate has it, "And they flew in the air, about two cubits above the earth." This is a very free translation, nevertheless it exactly expresses the sense of the original. The quails flew about breast high, and so were easily killed. Many readers of this will recall flights of pigeons in such numbers as to darken the sun, and when they flew so low as to be easily knocked down with clubs. In the case under consideration, the quails were brought miraculously, and were doubtless in miraculous numbers; but the Bible, rightly translated, gives no countenance to the absurdity of either living or dead birds being piled up three feet high for a space two days' journey in diameter.

Bible texts in this lesson

Numbers 10:33 · Numbers 10:35 · Numbers 10:36 · Numbers 11:1 · Psalms 78:20-22 · Psalms 78:23 · Psalms 78:24 · Lamentations 3:22 · Lamentations 3:23 · Numbers 11:2 · James 5:16 · Numbers 11:4-6 · Numbers 11:11 · Numbers 11:14 · Numbers 11:16 · Numbers 11:17 · Numbers 11:18 · Numbers 11:19 · Numbers 11:20 · Numbers 11:21 · Numbers 11:22 · Numbers 11:23 · Numbers 11:31 · Psalms 78:27-29 · Numbers 11:32 · Psalms 78:30 · Psalms 78:31 · Numbers 11:33 · Psalms 78:32

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