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Numbers 11:2

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11:2 When the people cried to Moses, he 1  prayed to the Lord, and the fire died out. 2 

Numbers 16:35

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16:35 Then a fire 3  went out from the Lord and devoured the 250 men who offered incense.

1 tn Heb “Moses.”

2 sn Here is the pattern that will become in the wilderness experience so common – the complaining turns to a cry to Moses, which is then interpreted as a prayer to the Lord, and there is healing. The sequence presents a symbolic lesson, an illustration of the intercession of the Holy Spirit. The NT will say that in times of suffering Christians do not know how to pray, but the Spirit intercedes for them, changing their cries into the proper prayers (Rom 8).

3 tn For a discussion of the fire of the Lord, see J. C. H. Laughlin, “The Strange Fire of Nadab and Abihu,” JBL 95 (1976): 559-65.



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