THE MANNA. -- Exodus 16:4-12. GOLDEN TEXT. --_ Jesus said unto them,. am the Bread of Life._ -- John 6:35. TIME. --B. C. 1491. The spring of the year. PLACES. --The Wilderness of Sin, between Elim and Sinai. CONNECTING LINKS. --1. The Song of Moses (Exodus 15:1-21); 2. The Bitter Waters of Marah (Ex... [ Continue Reading ]
II. MURMURS REBUKED. 6. AT EVEN THEN YE SHALL KNOW THAT THE LORD HATH BROUGHT YOU OUT OF... EGYPT. Though the Lord had bared his hand in the plagues with which the Egyptians were smitten, and in the salvation of the Israelites from the Red Sea, yet as soon as food failed in the wilderness, and they... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN THE MORNING. Bearing in mind the parallelism of the clauses, we obtain this meaning: That in the evening and in the morning the Israelites would perceive the glory of the Lord, who had brought them out of Egypt. "Seeing" is synonymous with "knowing." Seeing the glory of Jehovah did not consi... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL GIVE YOU IN THE EVENING FLESH TO EAT. This refers to the miraculous supply of quails which became. part of their food. The identification of the Hebrew "slav," the name of the birds in verse 13, with the common quail, may be assumed as certain. The name is applied in Arabic to that bird; it m... [ Continue Reading ]
III. THE GLORY IN THE CLOUD. 9. COME NEAR BEFORE THE LORD. That is, before the cloud that showed forth his presence and his glory, and which, as far as Israel was concerned, constituted the shekinah or habitation of the Lord. The symbols of God's presence are repeatedly in the Scriptures called by... [ Continue Reading ]
AS AARON SPAKE... THEY LOOKED TOWARD THE WILDERNESS. While Aaron, at the command of Moses, spake to the people, the cloudy pillar, which had probably moved in advance of the congregation, in the direction in which they were journeying towards the wilderness region of Arabia, began to glow with the... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES. The Lord's communications for Israel, except in the rare instance of the giving of the law at Sinai, were made through Moses. The congregation of Israel is marshalled before the cloudy pillar; it shines with resplendent glory from the presence of the Lord, at the same tim... [ Continue Reading ]
HAVE HEARD THE MURMURINGS. The murmurings described in verses 2, 3--verses that describe the same people who had seen all the first-born of Egypt perish in. single night, virtually wishing that they had died in the same manner; where the very people who had groaned and cried from the Egyptian bonda... [ Continue Reading ]