Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 11:4

4 And the * mixt multitude that was among them, fell a lusting, and the children of Israel also wept again , and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

Consisting of Egyptians or other people, which being affected with Gods miraculous works in Egypt, and thereupon believing the promise of God to carry them to a land of milk and honey for their own advantage joyned themselves to the Israelites, Exod. 12. 38. and now finding themselves sadly disappointed they discover their evil minds.

Whose special relation and obligation to God should have restrained them from such carriages.

This word relates either to their former murmuring upon this occasion a twelve-moneth before, Exod. 16. 2. or rather to their complaining mentioned▪ ver. 1. to note the aggravation of their sin, that having just now sinned in the same kind and sorely smarted for their sin, and being but newly delivered from their fears and dangers caused thereby, they forthwith return to their vomit and murmur again, and that more passionately than before, expressing themselves in tears and bitter words.

This word is here taken generally so as to include fish, as the next words shew, and as it is used, 1 Cor. 15. 39. They had indeed flesh and cattel which they brought with them out of Egypt, but these were reserved for breed to be carried into Canaan, and were so few that they would scarce have served them for a moneth, as may be gathered from Numb. 11. 20, 21, 22.

Marginal references: Exod. 12. 38.; Heb. lusted a lust.; Heb. returned and wept.; 1 Cor. 10. 6. Psal. 78. 18. and 106. 14.