Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 11:31

31 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 days journey on this side, and as it were a dayes journey on the other side round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth .

(i. e.) An extraordinary and miracuious wind both for its vehemency and for its effects.

A delicious and very nourishing food, which, considering their greedy appetite, and the newness and plenty of it, disposed them to surfets and other distempers of body, and prepared the way for the following plague. God gave them quails once before Exod. 16. 13. but neither in the same quantity, nor with the same design and effect as now.

Principally from the Red sea, and both sides of it; where, by the report of antient heathen writers, they were then in great numbers, and, no doubt, were wonderfully increased by Gods special providence for this very occasion.

Not as if the quails did cover all the ground two cubits high for a days journey on each side of the camp, for then there had been no place left where they could spread them all abroad round about the camp, as it is said they did, ver. 32. but the meaning is, that the quails came and fell down round about the camp for a whole days journey on each side of it, and that in all that space they lay here and there in great heaps, which were oft-times two cubirs high.

Marginal references: Exod. 16. 1[illegible: 1+ letters]. Psal. 78. 26. and 105. 40.; Heb. as it were we[illegible: 1+ letters] the way of a [illegible: 1 word].