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be placed at the feet of the Redeemer, He alone is worthy: no flesh shall glory in His
presence.
The Lord meets Moses' difficulty by appointing seventy men of the elders of Israel to
share his burden, even as He had deputed Aaron to share the work at the first.
Then the Lord takes up the complaint of Israel and their desire for flesh:--
"Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty
days, but even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto
you: because that ye have despised the Lord which is among you, and have wept before
Him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?" (Numb. 11: 19, 20).
We know how the Lord fulfilled this dreadful pronouncement. A wind brought quails
from the sea, which flew so low that they were easily caught. All that day and all that
night and all the next day the people gathered quails:--
"And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the
Lord was kindled against the people" (Numb. 11: 33).
The following passages of Scripture seem to be a fitting comment and conclusion to
this solemn passage:--
"We remember" (Numb. 11: 5).
"They soon forgat His works; they waited not for His counsel, but lusted exceedingly
in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. And He gave them their request; but
sent leanness into their soul" (Psa. 106: 13-15).
"I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, to be content . . . . . I can do all things
through Christ which strengtheneth me" (Phil. 4: 11-13).
"Be content with such things as ye have: for He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor
forsake thee" (Heb. 13: 5).