John Gill Commentary Numbers 11:3

"And the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of Jehovah burnt among them." — Numbers 11:3 (ASV)

And he called the name of the place Taberah
That is, "burning": Moses called it so; or it may be rendered impersonally, it was called ^F19 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, (1 Corinthians 10:10 1 Corinthians 10:11) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F19: (arqyw) "et vocatum est", Tigurine version, Fagius, Piscator.