The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 106:15

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And he gave them their request. By sending the quails (Numbers 11:31, Numbers 11:32). But sent leanness into their soul. By "leanness" is meant dissatisfaction or disgust. After eating freely of the quails for a full month, the food became "loathsome" to them (Numbers 11:20).

Whether it actually produced the pestilence which followed (Numbers 11:33). or whether that was a separate and distinct affliction, it is impossible to determine (compare, on the whole subject, Psalms 78:18-31, and the comment ad loc.

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