Kibroth-hattaavah
    the graves of the longing or of lust, one of the stations of the
    Israelites in the wilderness. It was probably in the Wady
    Murrah, and has been identified with the Erweis el-Ebeirig,
    where the remains of an ancient encampment have been found,
    about 30 miles north-east of Sinai, and exactly a day's journey
    from 'Ain Hudherah.

      "Here began the troubles of the journey. First, complaints
    broke out among the people, probably at the heat, the toil, and
    the privations of the 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
    (Num. 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" (Num. 11:34, 35;
    33:16, 17; Deut. 9:22; comp. Ps. 78:30, 31)., Rawlinson's Moses,
    p. 175. From this encampment they journeyed in a north-eastern
    direction to Hazeroth.



 Kibroth-hattaavah, the graves of lust