John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 33:16

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibrothhattaavah.] Eight miles from the desert of Sinai; here the people lusted after flesh, and murmured, which, though given them, a pestilence came and destroyed many of them, and here they were buried, whence the place was so called, which signifies the “graves of lust”, i.e. of those that lusted: no mention is made of Taberah, either because it was the same with Kibroth, or near it; or, as Aben Ezra on (<050922>Deuteronomy 9:22) says, they encamped there but one day, and so is not mentioned in the journeys, though it was one of the three they journeyed from Mount Sinai to Kibrothhattaavah, (see <041101>Numbers 11:1-3,34,35).

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