Numbers (Adults)

Numbers Chapter 11

Lesson written by Brian Andrews

Chapter 11

Check your reading:

1. What caused the area to be named Taberah (blaze)?
   
   
   
   

2. What kind of people wanted different food?
   
   
   
   

3. What did manna look like?
   
   
   
   

4. How was manna prepared to eat?
   
   
   
   

5. When did manna come?
   
   
   
   

6. What was the extent of the complaining about the food?
   
   
   
   

7. What did Moses compare the Israelites and his relationship too?
   
   
   
   

8. What did God instruct Moses to bring him?
   
   
   
   

9. Why was God upset at the ‘request’ for meat?
   
   
   
   

10. What did Yahweh give to the 70 men from the leaders of the people?
    
    
    
    

11. How many men reported to the tent of meeting?
    
    
    
    

12. What disturbed Joshua?
    
    
    
    

13. What happened when the people were eating the quail?
    
    
    
    

Class Discussion

1. How did God bring the quail to the Israelites?  How did the Israelites gather the quail?  How much did the least of them gather?
   
   
   
   
   
   

2. What is the nature of complaining as exhibited in the desire for meat?  Find additional passages that relate.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

3. The Israelites were a newly freed people without a home.  They had been enslaved and oppressed for generations (400 years).  How did God receive their complaining?  Is there a lesson for us today?
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

4. Moses had many pressures as a leader.  In this section we see how much of a hardship complaining is to Moses.

   1. How would you describe Moses’ faith in God at this point?
      
      
      
      
      
      

   2. What did Moses mean when he said “If only all the Lord's people were prophets…”?
      
      
      
      
      
      

   3. Is there any application of any of these thoughts in the Lord’s church today?
      
      
      
      
      
      
      

5. The Israelites did not have meat to eat and when they asked for the meat and received it they were punished.  Please compare and contrast the request the Israelites made for meat to the requests we should bring before God today (consider New Testament teaching on requests to God and that Kibroth-hattaavah literally means “Graves of craving”).  Has God changed his stance on how and what we should ask him for?