march; and then God at once punished them by lightning, which fell on the
hinder part of the camp, and killed many persons, but ceased at the
intercession of Moses (Numbers 11:1, 2). Then a disgust fell on the
multitude at having nothing to eat but the manna day after day, no change,
no flesh, no fish, no high-flavoured vegetables, no luscious fruits...The
people loathed the ‘light food,’ and cried out to Moses, ‘Give us flesh,
give us flesh, that we may eat.’” In this emergency Moses, in despair, cried
unto God. An answer came. God sent “a prodigious flight of quails, on
which the people satiated their gluttonous appetite for a full month. Then
punishment fell on them: they loathed the food which they had desired; it
bred disease in them; the divine anger aggravated the disease into a plague,
and a heavy mortality was the consequence. The dead were buried without
the camp; and in memory of man’s sin and of the divine wrath this name,
Kibroth-hattaavah, the Graves of Lust, was given to the place of their
sepulchre” (Numbers 11:34, 35; 33:16, 17; Deuteronomy 9:22; comp.
Psalm 78:30, 31)., Rawlinson’s Moses, p. 175. From this encampment
they journeyed in a north-eastern direction to Hazeroth.
- KIBZAIM two heaps, a city of Ephraim, assigned to the Kohathite
Levites, and appointed as a city of refuge (Joshua 21: 22). It is also called
Jokmeam (1 Chronicles 6:68). - KID the young of the goat. It was much used for food (Genesis 27:9;
38:17; Judges 6:19; 14:6). The Mosaic law forbade to dress a kid in the
milk of its dam, a law which is thrice repeated (Exodus 23:19; 34:26;
Deuteronomy 14:21). Among the various reasons assigned for this law,
that appears to be the most satisfactory which regards it as “a protest
against cruelty and outraging the order of nature.” A kid cooked in its
mother’s milk is “a gross, unwholesome dish, and calculated to kindle
animal and ferocious passions, and on this account Moses may have
forbidden it. Besides, it is even yet associated with immoderate feasting;
and originally, I suspect,” says Dr. Thomson (Land and the Book), “was
connected with idolatrous sacrifices.” - KIDRON = Kedron = Cedron, turbid, the winter torrent which flows
through the Valley of Jehoshaphat, on the eastern side of Jerusalem,
between the city and the Mount of Olives. This valley is known in
Scripture only by the name “the brook Kidron.” David crossed this brook
bare-foot and weeping, when fleeing from Absalom (2 Samuel 15:23, 30),
and it was frequently crossed by our Lord in his journeyings to and fro