Taberah

And I cast the dust thereof into the river that descended out of the mount.

Also in Taberah and in Massah and in Kibrot, you provoked the Lord to anger.

Likewise, when the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, go up and possess the land which I have given you, then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God and believed him not, nor hearkened unto his voice.

You have been rebellious unto the Lord since the date that I knew you.

Anyway, verse three.

"And he called the name of the place Taberah because the fire of the Lord burnt among them," and that's actually what that word means.

It means, uh, uh, the c- the consuming.

The, uh, it, that, that's exactly the picture here.

And the people cried unto Moses, and when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.

And he called the name of the place Taberah, because the fire of the Lord burnt among them.

And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting, and the children of Israel also wept again and said, 'Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic, but now our soul is dried away.

There is nothing at all beside this manna before our eyes.' And the manna was as coriander seed, and the color thereof as the color of bdellium.

It's, it's like a spiritual cancer that must be excised out of us.

And the severity with which we must treat our carnality, it's seen in, in where they were judged.

Uh, that you begin in, in this chapter in verse number 3, and they, they speak of the fact that, uh, uh, that the fire of God fell i- in a place of judgment, and, and they called it Taberah.

That, that means burning.

That, I mean, the, those psalms were huge for me in some struggling seasons when I didn't know, and I was like, "Oh, thank you, David." [laughs] You know, like, yeah, that, that's me right now.

All right, so verse three, it says, "The name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the Lord burned against them." And so in this whole section, like every time that they start doing their grumbling bit, m- places get named- [laughs] ...

for bad, bad things.

So you had Massah and Meribah back in Exodus 17, which is when they tested God and quarreled.

Hmm.

And that's what those names mean.

Here you've got Taberah, which is going to mean literally burning.

It's the place where God burns the place.

So the people cried to Moses, Moses prays to Yah, the fire is quenched.

The place is called, uh, uh, Taberah, and that means a burning from the same Hebrew root as the fire that was burnt among them.

So this one is right here, it, it, it stays short as the text keeps it, and there is no hidden cause to uncover here.

And, uh, and, and once the pl- and, and supplying one would be just add to what Yah didn't say.

And verse two says, "And the people cried unto Moses, and when, and, and when Moses, and when, and when Moses prayed unto Yahuwah, the fire was quenched." So Moses' intercession, him praying.

Lot of folks just crying alone, but Moses praying, that's what brought relief.

And he called the name of the place Tab- Taberah, because the fire of Yahuwah burnt among them.

So the name of the place, um, preserved a memory of the judgment long after the fire went out.