Exodus 16:6

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 seemed in danger of perishing from thirst or hunger, they forgot all the Lord had done for them, doubted whether the Lord would deliver them, and indeed probably doubted whether the Lord had anything to do with their departure from Egypt. Their faith was weak; nor were they free entirely from. tincture of Egyptian idolatry. The fact that God fed them daily in the desert would be. constant demonstration that the Lord had brought them out of the land of Egypt. The Israelites had charged Moses and Aaron with bringing them out of Egypt, as if from their own motion. Moses therefore here assures them, on the other hand, that they should soon have evidence that it was Jehovah, and not his servants, who had brought them out of the land of bondage.