The Lord Sends Quail

​The Lord Sends Quail


In the Book of Numbers, Chapter 11: verses 31–35, we learn that…


…the Lord sent a wind, which brought quail from the sea, and let them fall all around Israel’s camp. 


For miles, in every direction, there were quail flying, about three feet above the ground. 


So, the people went out, and caught quail, all that day, and throughout the night, and all the next day, too. 


No one gathered less than fifty bushels! 


They spread the quail all around the camp, to dry. 


But, while they were gorging themselves, on the meat—while it was still in their mouths—the anger of the Lord blazed against the people, and he struck them, with a severe plague. 


So, that place was called Kibroth-hat-ta-avah (which means “graves of gluttony”) …because there, they buried the people, who had craved meat, from Egypt. 


From Kibroth-hat-ta-avah, the Israelites traveled to Hazeroth, where they stayed for some time. 


Why did the Lord keep the Israelites at Hazeroth for such a long time?


According to Matthew George Easton, a Scottish minister and writer, best known for his work, on the Illustrated Bible Dictionary, bearing his name:


HAZEROTH was likely a fenced enclosure, consisting of “a low wall of stones, in which thick bundles of thorny acacia were inserted.


The tangled branches and long needle-like spikes formed a perfectly impenetrable hedge around the encampment” of tents and cattle, which they sheltered. 


Enclosures such as this abound, in the wilderness of Paran, even today, and are where the Israelites entered after leaving Sinai (according to the Book of Numbers …as first noted in Chapter 11: verse 35; then later in chapter 12: verse 16; and in chapter 33: verses 17&18). 


This third encampment of the Israelites has been identified with the modern ‘Ain el-Hudhera, some 40 miles north-east of Sinai. 


From this encampment the Israelites marched northward across the plateau of et-Tih, and at length reached KADESH. 


According to the list of Stations of the Exodus in the Book of Numbers Chapter 33, Hazeroth was the Israelites’ fourteenth encampment. 


Easton’s reference to it, as the third encampment, probably means the third encampment, after leaving the Mountain of God.


God’s word for all of God’s people.


Praise be to God!



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