Numbers Chapter 11 verse 2 Holy Bible

ASV Numbers 11:2

And the people cried unto Moses; and Moses prayed unto Jehovah, and the fire abated.
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BBE Numbers 11:2

And the people made an outcry to Moses, and Moses made prayer to the Lord, and the fire was stopped.
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DARBY Numbers 11:2

And the people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Jehovah -- and the fire abated.
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KJV Numbers 11:2

And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.
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WBT Numbers 11:2

And the people cried to Moses; and when Moses prayed to the LORD, the fire was quenched.
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WEB Numbers 11:2

The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.
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YLT Numbers 11:2

And the people cry unto Moses, and Moses prayeth unto Jehovah, and the fire is quenched;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - And the people cried unto Moses. Fear brought them to their senses, and they knew that their only hope was in their mediator, who had already saved them by his intercession from a worse destruction (Exodus 32:30-34). The fire was quenched. Rather, "went out." As its beginning was supernatural, or at least was so ordered as to appear so, its end also was due to the Divine intervention, not to human efforts.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) The fire was quenched.--Better, subsided or sunk down. No precise information is given as to the extent of the fire, or as to the objects which it destroyed. It broke out in the extremity of the encampment, and it was arrested in its progress at the supplication of Moses. It seems, however, more probable that it consumed some of the Israelites themselves, than that it consumed only some of their tents. Some suppose that the reference is to the simoom, or fiery south wind, which sometimes blows in the Eastern desert, and which stifles those over whom it sweeps.