The Bible Story Vol 2_w.pdf - Herbert W. Armstrong

A CRY
CHAPTER TH IRTY-SEVEN
QUAIL FOR TWO MILLION
of horro r and grief went up from the peop le of Israe l. God's
sudden, awful punis hment reminded them of the manner in which the
Creator had struck during t he time of the Passover one year previously.
Then the victim s had been Egyptians . This time there also were Egyptians,
because Egyptians who had come in the mixed multitude with the
Israelites were in part to blame . But a large number of the offenders were
now Israelite s.
Is rael Cries for Mercy
Because the shooting, exploding bolts of flame struck offenders in
every part of all the camps, Moses was qui ckly aware of what was going
on. Immed iat ely, however, there was a rush of officers from all the camps
to tell Moses what was taking place, and to inform him that t he peop le
were screaming for mercy and aski ng for Moses to pray to God to stop the
fiery explosions. (Numbers 11:2).
When Moses learned that so many peop le had already been slain by
the fire from God, he immed iately went into his tent, fell on his knees
before the Creator.
The dead ly spurts of flame gradually disappeared after Moses' dili ­
gent pra yer. Terrified peop le who had raced wildly about the camps
eventually returned to their tents to count their dead.
Next day was a bitter one for the Israe lites. Many bodie s were buried
in the shifting sands of the high desert country. God' s wrath had such a
deep effect on many of the people th at they named the area Taberah,
which meant "a burning."
But in spite of this terrible warning to comp lainers, many of the
people cont inued to murmur about their conditions. Most of them were
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