And while] This was at the moneths end; for so long God promised to feed them with flesh, vers. 20.
plague] God sometimes granteth mens desires in judgement; Hosea 13:11. and sometimes denyeth them in mercy, 2 Corinthians 12:9. This plague is thought to be the burning vengeance, as vers. 3. the same punishment for the same murmuring, whereof in the beginning of the Chapter the sinne is set down in generall, and the plague in particular.