Numbers 11:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

Whole month

Exodus 16:8

And it

Despised

1 Thessalonians 4:8

Bible References

Whole month

Moses said, “This will happen when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening, and bread to the full in the morning; for the Lord hears your grumblings which you grumble against Him. And what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against the Lord.”

And it

The people spoke against God and Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and

we loathe this miserable food.”

When He rained meat upon them like the dust,
Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas,

So He gave them their request,
But sent a wasting disease among them.

A sated man loathes honey,
But to a famished man any bitter thing is sweet.

Despised

Therefore the Lord God of Israel declares, ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father should walk before Me forever’; but now the Lord declares, ‘Far be it from Me—for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me will be lightly esteemed.

Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’

“‘A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?’ says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

‘Behold, you scoffers, and marvel, and

perish;

For I am accomplishing a work in your days,
A work which you will never believe, though someone should describe it to you.’”

So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.