These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
Cross References
Numbers 11:4Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, "Who will feed us meat?
Numbers 11:34So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.
Psalm 106:14They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
1 Corinthians 10:11Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
Treasury of Scripture
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
these.
1 Corinthians 10:11
Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Zephaniah 3:6,7
I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant…
Hebrews 4:11
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
examples.
Romans 5:14
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Hebrews 9:24
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
1 Peter 3:21
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
lust.
Numbers 11:4,31-34
And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? …
Psalm 78:27-31
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: …
Psalm 106:14,15
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert…
