Quails Fowl
The Israelites were twice comforted in their hardship by a miraculous supply of quails. It was in the wilderness of Sin and again at Kibroth-hattaavah. The quail was used for the the appeasement of the Children of Israel. LORD heard the murmurings of the Children of Israel and manna fell from heaven and in the evening quail covered the camp.
And the Children of Israel took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not. And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, at evening, then they shall know that the LORD has brought you out from the land of Egypt. And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, at evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God. And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. (Exodus 16:1-13).
The LORD had commanded the Children of Israel to gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of persons which were in their tents. The children of Israel gathered some more and some less. When they did measure it with an omer, those that gathered much had nothing over, and those that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating. They were instructed not to leave any until the morning. There was some that did not hear Moses that which was left until the morning, it bred worms, and stank. (Exodus 16:16ñ20).
Still again there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a days journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails. Those that gathered the least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague. And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted. (Numbers 11:31-34).
Psalms recall all the LORD God had done for His people in the land of Egypt and included the people asked, and He brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. (Psalm 105:40)
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