Numbers 11:2
And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.
Numbers 11:2 in other translations
| BSB | And the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down. |
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| WEB | The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire abated. |
| ASV | And the people cried unto Moses; and Moses prayed unto Jehovah, and the fire abated. |
| YLT | And the people cry unto Moses, and Moses prayeth unto Jehovah, and the fire is quenched; |
| DARBY | And the people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Jehovah — and the fire abated. |
| BBE | And the people made an outcry to Moses, and Moses made prayer to the Lord, and the fire was stopped. |
| Webster | And the people cried to Moses; and when Moses prayed to the LORD, the fire was quenched. |
What does Numbers 11:2 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 11:1-3
Here is the people's sin; they complained. See the sinfulness of sin, which takes occasion from the commandment to be provoking. The weakness of the law discovered sin, but could not destroy it; checked, but could not conquer it. They complained. Those who are of a discontented spirit, will always find something to quarrel or fret about, though the circumstances of their outward condition be ever so favourable. The…
Numbers 11:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 11:2
- Numbers 21:7
Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
- James 5:16
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
- Numbers 16:45-48
Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces. And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague is begun. And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
- Exodus 32:31-32
And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
- Exodus 32:10-14
Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation. And Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. …
- 1 John 5:16
If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
- Numbers 14:13-20
And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. …
- Acts 8:24
Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.
- Isaiah 37:4
It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
- Hebrews 7:26
For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
- Jeremiah 37:3
And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the Lord our God for us.
- Genesis 18:23-33
And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. …
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
21:7; Ps 78:34,35; Jer 37:3; 42:2; Ac 8:24
prayed.
14:13-20; Ge 18:23-33; Ex 32:10-14,31,32; 34:9; De 9:19,20
Ps 106:23; Isa 37:4; Jer 15:1; Am 7:2-6; Jas 5:16; 1Jo 5:16
the fire.
16:45-48; Heb 7:26; 1Jo 2:1,2
was quenched. Heb. sunk.
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Context
- Numbers 11:1
And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
- Numbers 11:2
And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.
- Numbers 11:3
And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them.
Numbers 11:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Entonces el pueblo dió voces á Moisés, y Moisés oró á Jehová, y soterróse el fuego. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et le peuple cria à Moïse, et Moïse pria l’ Éternel, et le feu s’éteignit. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und das Volk schrie zu Mose; und Mose betete zu Jehova, da legte sich das Feuer. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Cumque clamasset populus ad Moysen, oravit Moyses ad Dominum, et absorptus est ignis. |