‘And Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?”
Yahweh rebukes the disobedient people through Moses but there is no penalty. This can surely only be because it was a new institution. The cry of Yahweh hear is reflected in every generation. How He longs that His people will obey Him.
HOW LONG - The reference to Exodus 16:4 is obvious. The prohibition involved a trial of faith, in which as usual the people were found wanting. Every miracle formed some part, so to speak, of an educa...
XVI. MANNA AND QUAILS (Exodus 16:1 P, Exodus 16:4 a(b) - Exodus 16:5 J, (Exodus 16:6 f.,...
THE LORD SAID. See note on Exodus 3:7, and compare note on Exodus 6:10. HOW LONG... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6....
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 16 And they took their journey from E-lim, and all the congregation of the children of Is-ra-el came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between E-Iim and Si-nai, on th...
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT THERE WENT OUT SOME OF THE PEOPLE ON THE SEVENTH DAY FOR TO GATHER, AND THEY FOUND NONE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
THIRD MURMURING. SENDING OF THE MANNA 1. Pursuing their march southward, the Israelites come at the end of the first month after their departure from Egypt to the WILDERNESS OF SIN, forming the SW. bo...
EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 16 FOOD FROM HEAVEN – VERSES 1-36 GOD PROMISES FOOD – VERSES 1-12 V...
HOW LONG REFUSE YE TO KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS ? — The people had already broken one of the positive precepts with respect to the manna (see Exodus 16:20); now they broke another — in the spirit, at any r...
וַ יֹּ֥אמֶר יְהוָ֖ה אֶל ־מֹשֶׁ֑ה עַד ־אָ֨נָה֙
DAILY FOOD AND ITS MEMORIAL Exodus 16:27 Wherever the cloud broods the manna falls. If we are true to God's leadings, and pitch our tents in obedience to His guiding cloud, we may confidently reckon...
From Elim the people moved into the dreariness of the great wilderness and began to be conscious of the scarcity of some of the things which they had had, even in the midst of Egyptian slavery. There...
I could wish that the jealousy which the Lord in this place, and in numberless other passages in the Bible, manifests for the observance of his holy day, was made the serious subject of consideration...
There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. And this is the more striking, because God emp...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 16 AND 17. But now the difficulties of the way arrive. They travel three days without water-a sad effect, in appearance, of such a deliverance; and then the w...
AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES,.... Who had seen and taken notice of what those men had done, who went out into the field to seek for manna on the seventh day, and was displeased with it, and therefore...
And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? Ver. 28. _How long refuse ye._] The rulers are disgraced for the people's unruliness. _ To keep my commandments?...
1 The Israelites come to Sin. 2 They murmure for want of bread. 4 God promiseth them bread from heauen. 11 Quailes are sent, 14 and Manna. 16 The ordering of Manna. 25 It was not to bee found on...
THE SABBATH REST...
And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep My commandments and My laws? The people were giving a poor account of their faith in this trial of their obedience and heaping one sin upon the...
FIFTH SECTION The journey through the wilderness to Sinai. Want of water. Marah. Elim. The Wilderness of Sin. Quails. Manna. Rephidim (Massah and Meribah). The Amalekites. Jethro and his advice, a hu...
BREAD FROM HEAVEN FOR THE WILDERNESS (vs.1-36) Just one month following the Passover in Egypt, Israel, leaving the refreshment of Elim's oasis, came into "the wilderness of sin" (v.1). Sin means "tho...
22-31 Here is mention of a seventh-day sabbath. It was known, not only before the giving of the law upon mount Sinai, but before the bringing of Israel out of Egypt, even from the beginning, Genesis...
THE LORD SPOKE UNTO MOSES, that he might speak it to the people. He signifies that this was an old disease in them, to disobey God's precepts, and to pollute his sabbaths....
"And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month af...
Exodus 16:28 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Moses H4872 refuse H3985 (H8765) keep H8104 (H8800) commandments...
Exodus 16:1. _And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the se...
CONTENTS: Murmuring of the people. Manna and quails given by God. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: The believer is apt to forget a thousand mercies in the presence of one trifling privatio...
Exodus 16:1. _The fifteenth day of the second month;_ that is, Jiar, or the 30th of April. See the table, chap. 12. Exodus 16:2. _Israel murmured._ They wantonly said as in Psalms 78:20, Can the Lord...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 16:22 The instructions for gathering manna for six days and resting on the seventh as a HOLY SABBATH (v. Exodus 16:23) begin to shape Israel in
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 16:22_ THE SABBATH IN ITS RELATION TO SECULAR TOIL We see in this narrative how very slow men are to understand the meaning of the Divine Word and command,...
EXPOSITION THE GATHERING OF THE SIXTH DAY. When the Israelites, having collected what seemed to them the usual quantity of manna on the sixth day, brought it home and measured it, they found the yield...
The children of Israel are moving now through the wilderness. And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is betwee...
Exodus 10:3 Numbers 14:11 Numbers 20:12 2 Kings 17:14 Psalms 78:10