Le Deutéronome 9:22 Commentaire : Chizkuni, Da'at Zekenim, Ibn Ezra & Ramban

ובתבערה and at Taveyrah; this is a reference to Taveyrah, also known as kivrat hataavah, the burial ground of the greedy ones, where thousands had died for eating too much meat for too long. (Numbers 11,3.) Seeing that this place had two names, Moses mentions both of them.

ובתבערה, “and at Tav-eyrah;” here Moses refers to what happened in Numbers 11,1 we read ותבער בם אש ה', “and a fire from the Lord burned among them.” It consumed the people who had grumbled without spelling out their specific complaints.”

Taverah is probably the name of a place where they encamped for only one day, therefore it is not mentioned in the parasha of Masey ; but it is one of the thirty places they traversed on the way from Mount Sinai to Graves-of-Lust, as I have explained [comment on Numbers 10: 31]. The connection between Taverah and Massah is that in both places the people were grumbling against — were testing, as it were — God . The reason Taverah is mentioned first, before Massah, is that at Massah nothing happened to them. And some say that Amalek came because [the Israelites] tested the Lord. And therefore it mentioned the burning of the Lord's fire in them and the pursuit of Amalek and the plague of those that desired - the most difficult first. Some say that Taverah is Massah, along the lines of “from the top of S̀ ә nir and Ḥermon” [Songs of Songs 4: 8]. But the correct explanation is the one I have given.