Numbers 11:3

WEB

The name of that place was called Taberah, because the Lord's fire burnt among them.

KJV

And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.

Commentary

Commentary

And he called the name of the place Taberah,.... That is, "burning": Moses called it so; or it may be rendered i mpersonally, it was called (s) so in later times by the people: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them; to perpetuate the, memory of this kind of punishment for their sins, that it might be a terror and warning to others; and this history is indeed recorded for our caution in these last days, that we murmur not as these Israelites did, and were destroyed of the destroyer, Co1 10:10 . (s) "et vocatum est", Tigurine version, Fagius, Piscator.