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Psalm 78:30a "They were not deprived of their craving..."
Day 127 – Psalm 78
“They were not deprived of their craving…” Psalm 78:30a
INTENSE CRAVING FOR MEAT
The craving for meat must be understood in its full context. Let us ponder the following text as Moses noted it.
“Now the mixed multitude who were among them
yielded to intense craving;
So the children of Israel also wept again and said:
‘Who will give us meat to eat?But now our whole being is dried up;
There is nothing at all except this manna before
our eyes!'”
Numbers 11:4, 6
1. Absolute ingratitude is displayed.
2. There was also intense despising of the manna God graciously provided.
3. Instead there was an “intense craving” for meat.
NO DEPRIVATION AT ALL
God did not deprive the children of Israel at all, but graciously provided for them.
“They were not deprived of their craving.”
Psalm 78:30a
Let us read carefully the Biblical record that Moses had recorded concerning this event.
“And the people stayed up all that day, all night,
and all the next day, and gathered the quail
(he who gathered least gathered ten homers);
and they spread them out for themselves all around
the camp.”
Numbers 11:32