KIBROTH-HATTAAVAH

• Name	KIBROTH-HATTAAVAH
  _UID	AEF0880C5452D545A32C8215B912CC1807BC
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Notes	Personal name meaning, graves of lust. One of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness. It was probably in the Wady Murrah, and has been identified with the Erweis el-Ebeirig, where the remains of an ancient encampment have been found, about 30 miles north-east of Sinai, and exactly a day’s journey from 'Ain Hudherah. Here began the troubles of the journey. First, complaints broke out among the people, probably at the heat, the toil, and the privations of the march; and then God at once punished them by lightning, which fell on the hinder part of the camp, and killed many persons, but ceased at the intercession of Moses (Num 11:1, 2). Then a disgust fell on the multitude at having nothing to eat but the manna day after day, no change, no flesh, no fish, no high-flavored vegetables, no luscious fruits... The people loathed the ‘light food,’ and cried out to Moses, ‘Give us flesh, give us flesh, that we may eat.’. In this emergency Moses, in despair, cried unto God. An answer came. God sent a prodigious flight of quails, on which the people satiated their gluttonous appetite for a full month. Then punishment fell on them: they loathed the food which they had desired; it bred disease in them; the divine anger aggravated the disease into a plague, and a heavy mortality was the consequence. The dead were buried without the camp; and in memory of man’s sin and of the divine wrath this name, Kibroth-hattaavah, the Graves of Lust, was given to the place of their sepulchre (Num 11:34, 35; 33:16, 17; Deut 9:22; Ps. 78:30, 31). From this encampment they journeyed in a north-eastern direction to Hazeroth. kibroth-hattaavah (5) Num 11:34-35 (2), Num 33:16-17 (2), Deut 9:22 taberah (2) [burning] Num 11:3, Deut 9:22
  Person ID	I3914	z-Bible Genealogy
  Last Modified	24 Dec 2007