Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.
Here is, I. The people's sin. They complained, Num 11:1. They were, as it were, complainers. So it is in the margin. There were some secret grudgings and discontents among them, which as yet did not break out in an open mutiny. But how great a matter did this little fire kindle!
Commenting on Numbers 11:1-3
And the people cried unto Moses,.... And entreated him to pray for them, being frightened at the fire which consumed many of them, lest it should spread and become general among them: and when Moses prayed unto the Lord; as he did, in which he was a type of Christ, the mediator between God and man, the advocate of his people, an intercessor for transgressors...
Num 11:1-2 After a three days’ march the Israelites arrived at a resting-place; but the people began at once to be discontented with their situation.The people were like those who complain in the ears of Jehovah of something bad; i.e., they behaved like persons who groan and murmur because of some misfortune that has happened to them. No special occasion is mentioned for the complaint.
Commenting on Numbers 11:1-2