Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 11:33

33 And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed , the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague .

Heb. cut off, to wit, from their mout[illegible: 1+ letters], which is here understood, and expressed I[illegible: 1+ letters]t 1. 5. i. e. ere it was taken away, as the flocks are said to be [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] ▪ [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1+ letters]. 1[illegible: 1+ letters]. when they are lost and perished. The sence is▪ before they had done eating their quails, which lasted for a moneth, as appears from ver. 20.

Whether it was lea[illegible: 1+ letters]ness sent into them. Psal. 106. 15. whereby the food was deprived of its nourishing power which it hath onely from Gods blessing▪ or [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 1+ letters] punishment most suitable to their sin, and most likely to follow their intemperate desire and use of this food; or the pestilence, it is not much material: but a great and sore plague unquestionably it was. Quest. Why did God so sorely punish the peoples murmuring and complaining for lack of flesh here, when he spared them after the same sin, Exod. 16? Ans. Because this sin was a far greater sin than that and aggravated with worse circumstances; as proceeding not from necessity, as that did, when as yet they had no food, but from meer lust and wantonness, when they had Manna constantly given them; as committed after large experience of Gods care and kindness, after God had pardoned their former sins, and after God had in a solemn and terrible manner made known his laws and their duty to them.

Marginal references: Psal. [illegible: 1+ letters]8. 3[illegible: 1+ letters] ▪ 31.