Flesh to Eat Numbers 11

Numbers 11:5 "We remember the fish, which we id eat in Egypt freely, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:"

Sounds sort of like the children wanted a pizza. Not really. They have become displeased with eating only the angel food or manna the Lord was sending them for their daily bread. Sadly, if they had just waited a little longer and not rebelled in the next couple of chapters, they would have had all these things in abundance. But they lost their patience. What happened?

V4 "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?"

Provisions had been made for them to adopt strangers into their ranks but now the strangers have influenced them in the wrong way. Up to this point Israel had listened to the instructions of the Lord through Moses and did all of them. Now Moses can hear them weeping in their tents and he is touched deeply.

V14 "I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me." He told the Lord. So, in response to his plea, the Lord told him to appoint seventy men to help him. v16

But still there was the problem of the people wanting flesh to eat. The Bible called it lusting.

The Lord became angry with them and brought in quails for them, enough to feed all "six hundred thousand footman" v21 of them. But he was still angry even after he brought the quail, because of their unbelief and rebellion and their longing for a place where they had been enslaved. They seem to have totally forgotten that they were so close to the promised land which flowed with milk and honey.

The people stood up and ate the quail that day, that night and the next day. The quail were two cubits high.

v33 "And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague."

They buried the dead and then journeyed to Hazeroth.

Proverbs 16:25 "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."