Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Exodus 16:18
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.
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.
Verse Exodus 16:18. _HE THAT GATHERED MUCH HAD NOTHING OVER_] Because his gathering was in proportion to the number of persons for whom he had to provide. And some having fewer, others more in family...
HAD NOTHING OVER - Whatever quantity each person had gathered, when he measured it in his tent, he found that he had just as many omers as he needed for the consumption of his family....
XVI. MANNA AND QUAILS (Exodus 16:1 P, Exodus 16:4 a(b) - Exodus 16:5 J, (Exodus 16:6 f.,...
DISCOURSE: 87 SCRIPTURAL EQUALITY Exodus 16:16. This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded: Gather of it every man according to his eating; an omer for every man according to the number of your p...
WHEN THEY DID METE IT WITH AN OMER, HE THAT GATHERED MUCH, &C.— An _omer_ was the quantity allowed for each person, i.e. each person might, if he chose it, gather and use so much. Those who were aged...
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 WHEN THEY DID METE IT WITH AN OMER, HE THAT GATHERED MUCH HAD NOTHING OVER, AND HE THAT GATHERED LITTLE HAD NO LACK; THEY GATHERED EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS EATING._ He that gathered much had n...
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...
METE] i.e. measure: cp. Matthew 7:2. The total quantity of manna amounted exactly to an omer per head. This is evidently regarded here as miraculous, and designed to check want of trust and greed on t...
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...
WHEN THEY DID METE IT WITH AN OMER. — Each Israelite gathered what he supposed would be about an omer for each member of his family. Some naturally made an over, some an under estimate; but whatever t...
וַ יָּמֹ֣דּוּ בָ † עֹ֔מֶר וְ לֹ֤א...
THE MANNA IN THE WILDERNESS Exodus 16:13 The manna was typical of Christ. See John 6:31. He came down from heaven to bring God's life within the reach of man. It is not enough that God has made so ri...
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...
And when they did mete [it] with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no (h) lack; they gathered every man according to his eating. (h) God richly feeds ev...
_Eat. Each one's provision was just enough to fill a gomor; (Menochius) or those who had collected more, gave to those who wanted, 2 Corinthians viii. 15. Any one might take less. (Calmet)_...
The apostle is the best commentator on this, 2 Corinthians 8:15. Probably they gathered in families, or households; and so each had his proportion after. But is there not a sweet spiritual sense here,...
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 WHEN THEY DID METE IT WITH AN OMER,.... What was gathered in; and everyone had his measure, his omer dealt out to him by those that meted or measured it: HE THAT GATHERED MUCH HAD NOTHING OVER, A...
And when they did mete [it] with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating. Ver. 18. _He that gathered...
_He that gathered much had nothing over_ Commentators interpret this in different ways. Some suppose that God wrought a miracle in this case, and so ordered it, that when they came to measure what the...
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...
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...
13-21 At evening the quails came up, and the people caught with ease as many as they needed. The manna came down in dew. They called it "Manna, Manhu," which means, "What is this?" "It is a portion;...
"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 16:18 measured H4058 (H8799) omers H6016 much H7235 (H8688) over H5736 (H8689) little H4591 ...
THE GATHERING OF THE MANNA AND THE ESTABLISHING OF THE SABBATH (EXODUS 16:16). Instructions are given with regard to the gathering of the manna and with regard to the Sabbath which is seemingly now i...
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...
_Gather of it every man according to his eating._ SPIRITUAL ASSIMILATION Why did each receive but three quarts a day? Might not a nutritious and delicious food like this be stored, and become an arti...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 16:13. Quails.] Heb. שלו. “so called from its fatness” (Gesenius). According to all accounts, the “quail” abounds in those regions. EXODUS 16:15. MANNA.] It is evidently prema...
EXPOSITION THE PROMISE FULFILLED. Moses had made a double promise to the Israelites in God's name. "The Lord shall give you," he had said," in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the...
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...
2 Corinthians 8:14 2 Corinthians 8:15...