Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Exodus 16:2
Murmured - The want of food was first felt after six weeks from the time of the departure from Egypt, see Exodus 16:1 : we have no notice previously of any deficiency of bread.
Murmured - The want of food was first felt after six weeks from the time of the departure from Egypt, see Exodus 16:1 : we have no notice previously of any deficiency of bread.
Verse Exodus 16:2. _THE WHOLE CONGREGATION - MURMURED_] This is an additional proof of the degraded state of the minds of this people; Exodus 13:17. And this very circumstance affords a convincing ar...
XVI. MANNA AND QUAILS (Exodus 16:1 P, Exodus 16:4 a(b) - Exodus 16:5 J, (Exodus 16:6 f.,...
MURMURED. Murmurings mentioned eight times in these verses: viz Exodus 2:7; Exodus 2:7; Exodus 2:8; Exodus 2:8;...
THE WHOLE CONGREGATION OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL MURMURED— _The whole congregation_ seems to denote a more universal murmur, than the words _the people_ imply in Exodus 16:24 of the last chapter. The...
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 THE WHOLE CONGREGATION OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL MURMURED AGAINST MOSES AND AARON IN THE WILDERNESS:_ And the whole congregation murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. Modern travel...
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...
This was the third murmuring. The first was at Pi-hahiroth (Exodus 14:10), the second at Marah (Exodus 15:24). The supplies which the Israelites had brought with them out of Egypt being now exhausted,...
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...
THE WHOLE CONGREGRATION... MURMURED. — This is the third “murmuring.” The first was at Pi-hahiroth, on the appearance of the host of Pharaoh (Exodus 14:11); the second was at Marah, when the water pro...
_וַ_†_יִּלֹּ֜ונוּ_† כָּל ־עֲדַ֧ת בְּנֵי ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל עַל...
MURMURING FOR FOOD REBUKED Exodus 16:1 Moses made a double promise to the Israelites in God's name. In the evening they were to have flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full. But before the...
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...
By the whole, may we not, according to scripture in other instances, suppose it meant the greater part. Genesis 19:4; Numbers 16:41....
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...
2._And the whole congregation. _Moses says not that some of the people only murmured, but that they were all gathered into mobs as in a conspiracy, or, at any rate, as they were arranged by hundreds a...
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 WHOLE CONGREGATION OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL MURMURED,.... For want of bread; for the Targum of Jonathan says, that day the dough ceased they brought of Egypt, on which, and the unleavened cak...
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: Ver. 2. _And the whole congregation._] The most part of the people. _Diaconos paucitas honorab...
_The whole congregation murmured_ For want of bread, having consumed all the dough or flour which they had brought out of Egypt. A month's provision, it seems, the host of Israel took with them out of...
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...
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. Their dissatisfied complaint was directed against both leaders, and so against the divine act o...
THE MURMURING ABOUT THE FOOD...
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...
1-12 The provisions of Israel, brought from Egypt, were spent by the middle of the second month, and they murmured. It is no new thing for the greatest kindness to be basely represented as the greate...
For want of meat, as appears from the following verse, their provisions brought out of Egypt being now spent....
"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 16:2 congregation H5712 children H1121 Israel H3478 complained H3885 (H8735) Moses H4872 Aaron H175 wilderness H4057
CHAPTER 16 GOD PROVIDES MANNA AND QUAILS FOR HIS PEOPLE - THE SIGN OF THE SEVENTH DAY (EXODUS 16:2). In this chapter God provides both meat and ‘bread' for His people. The passage continues to reveal...
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...
_The wilderness of Sin._ MOSES IN THE WILDERNESS OF SIN People may be strong and hopeful at the beginning of a project, and most effusively and devoutly thankful at its close, but the difficulty is...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 16:2 Although the people GRUMBLED AGAINST MOSES AND AARON, Moses will make it clear that their complaint is really against the Lord (see v. Exodus 16:7).
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 16:1_ MURMURINGS We find the Israelites now in a very important and interesting stage of their great journey between Elim and Sinai; the former the place of...
EXPOSITION THE FIRST MURMURING FOR FOOD. From Elim, or the fertile tract extending from Wady Ghurnndel to Wady Tayibeh, the Israelites, after a time, removed, and ca-camped (as we learn from Numbers 3...
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 15:24 Genesis 19:4 Psalms 106:7 Psalms 106:13 Psalms 106:25
Then the whole congregation murmured against Moses and Aaron — God's viceregents among them....