John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth-hattaavah." — Numbers 33:16 (ASV)
And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibrothhattaavah . Eight miles from the desert of Sinai; here the people lusted after flesh, and murmured, which, though given them, a pestilence came and destroyed many of them, and here they were buried, from where the place was so called, which signifies the "graves of lust", i.e. of those that lusted: no mention is made of Taberah, either because it was the same with Kibroth, or near it; or, as Aben Ezra on (Deuteronomy 9:22) says, they encamped there but one day, and so is not mentioned in the journeys, though it was one of the three they journeyed from Mount Sinai to Kibrothhattaavah, see (Numbers 11:1–3Numbers 11:34Numbers 11:35) .