EXODUS CHAPTER 16 The children of Israel sojourn in the wilderness of Sin, EXODUS 16:1; murmur against Moses, EXODUS 16:2,3. God promises to supply their wants with bread from heaven, EXODUS 16:4; and directs about preparing this bread, EXODUS 16:5. Moses reproves the people for murmuring, EXODUS 16... [ Continue Reading ]
For want of meat, as appears from the following verse, their provisions brought out of Egypt being now spent.... [ Continue Reading ]
BY THE HAND OF THE LORD; by any of those plagues wherewith God destroyed the Egyptians. WHEN WE DID EAT BREAD TO THE FULL; which is not probable; but they amplify their former mercies, that they might aggravate their present calamity, as the manner of impatient and ungodly men is. QUEST. What danger... [ Continue Reading ]
BREAD, i.e. _manna_, which shall serve them instead of bread, NUMBERS 11:8, and was a more delicate and pleasant kind of bread, called therefore _the bread of angels_, PSALMS 78:24,25. FROM HEAVEN; the air, oft called heaven, in which _manna_ is produced. EVERY DAY, Heb. _the thing_, i.e. the provis... [ Continue Reading ]
PREPARE; lay up, grind, bake, or seethe. See EXODUS 16:23. and NUMBERS 11:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
And not by your our own authority or counsel, as you suggest.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GLORY OF THE LORD; either this glorious work of God in giving manna; or rather the glorious appearance of God in the cloud, as is evident from EXODUS 16:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
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BEFORE THE LORD; either before the cloudy pillar, where God was especially present; or in the place of God's worship. For though the great tabernacle was not yet built, yet it seems from EXODUS 33:7 there was a little tabernacle. For as the solemn, and public, and sabbath worship was among them befo... [ Continue Reading ]
An extraordinary brightness suddenly appearing in the pillar of cloud. See LEVITICUS 9:6,23.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD SPAKE, or, _had spoken_, to wit, before, by comparing this with EXODUS 16:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
God chooseth the proper time for each kind of provision; the evening for the quails, which being brought from remote parts, by their day's flight, about evening came thither; and the morning for manna, which usually falls at that time.... [ Continue Reading ]
Heb. _There was a bed of dew_, wherewith the manna was covered, REVELATION 16:14. To this _the hidden manna_, REVELATION 2:17, alludes.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THE DEW WAS GONE UP, to wit, into the air; or, _was vanished_, as the word _ascend_ is used JEREMIAH 48:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
IT IS MANNA; or, _What is this_ ? which best suits with the following reason, FOR THEY WIST NOT WHAT IT WAS. Man signifies what in the Egyptian tongue; and it is not strange that the Israelites use one of their words, being newly come out of their land. Hence this is called manna; but it is of a dif... [ Continue Reading ]
ACCORDING TO HIS EATING, i.e. as much as is sufficient for his eating. AN OMER contains the tenth part of an _ephah_, and therefore was a very liberal allowance, and such as might abundantly suffice a man of greatest strength and stomach. It might seem too much, but it must be remembered that it was... [ Continue Reading ]
Either, 1. According as their families were more or less numerous. Or rather, 2. As the gatherers were more or less strong and active in gathering it.... [ Continue Reading ]
All that was gathered by the members of one family was put into a heap, and then distributed to each person an omer, neither more nor less; to which St. Paul alludes, 2 CORINTHIANS 8:13, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
viz. For the provision of the next day, as distrusting God's care and goodness in giving them more. Not that every one was bound to eat all of it, which certainly many of their stomachs could not bear; but that they were to dissolve it, or but it, as they did the remains of some sacrifices, EXODUS 1... [ Continue Reading ]
SOME OF THEM LEFT OF IT; either distrusting God's providence for their future provisions; or out of curiosity to learn the nature of this manna, and what they might do when occasion required. _It stank_, not so much from its own nature, which was pure and durable, as from God's judgment.... [ Continue Reading ]
To wit, as much of it as was left upon the ground. This was not from its own nature, which was so solid that it could endure the fire, and was bruised by a pestle; but from God's wise providence, partly, that it might not be corrupted or trodden under foot, or otherwise abused, and so despised; part... [ Continue Reading ]
Considering God's present providence in causing it to fall in double proportion, and remembering that the next day was the sabbath day, which God had blessed and sanctified to his own immediate service, GENESIS 2:3, and therefore was not to be employed in servile works, such as the gathering of mann... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS IS THAT WHICH THE LORD HATH SAID; either to Moses by inspiration, or to the former patriarchs upon like occasions: this practice is agreeable to the former word and law of God concerning the sabbath, as it follow. BAKE AND SEETHE: the manna was dressed these two ways, NUMBERS 11:8. The words _t... [ Continue Reading ]
As there was before, EXODUS 16:20. So great a difference there is between the doing of a thing upon God's command, and with his blessing, and the doing of the same thing against his will, and with his curse.... [ Continue Reading ]
These words were spoken upon the morning of the sabbath day, as appears from the foregoing verse. A SABBATH UNTO THE LORD, i.e. wholly consecrated to his service, and therefore not to be employed in servile works.... [ Continue Reading ]
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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.... [ Continue Reading ]
HATH GIVEN YOU THE SABBATH; hath given to you, and to your fathers, that great command and privilege of the sabbath. Let no man go out of his place, out of his house or tent, into the field to gather manna, as appears from the occasion and reason of the law here before mentioned. For otherwise they... [ Continue Reading ]
Or _ceased_, to wit, from gathering _manna_, by comparing this with EXODUS 16:27, and consequently from all works of that nature.... [ Continue Reading ]
IT WAS LIKE CORIANDER SEED, in shape and figure, but not in colour, for that is dark-coloured, but this white, as it follows here, like bdellium, &c., NUMBERS 11:7. THE TASTE OF IT, when it was raw; but when it was drest it was like fresh oil, NUMBERS 11:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
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In the tabernacle, and by the ark, when they shall be built, and at present in the place where you meet for the solemn worship of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. Before the ark, which is called _the ark of the testimony_, EXODUS 25:16; and here, by way of abbreviation, THE TESTIMONY, or _witness_, because in it were the tables of the covenant, or the law of God, which was a testimony of God's authority and will, and of man's subjection and duty, or of t... [ Continue Reading ]
This Moses might well write; for though he did not go into Canaan, yet he came to the borders of Canaan. And though he did not see the cessation of the _manna_, yet he sufficiently knew both from the nature of the thing, and by revelation from God, that it would forthwith cease upon their entrance i... [ Continue Reading ]
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