Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Exodus 16:20
It bred worms - This result was supernatural: no such tendency to rapid decomposition is recorded of common manna.
It bred worms - This result was supernatural: no such tendency to rapid decomposition is recorded of common manna.
Verse Exodus 16:20. _IT BRED WORMS_] Their sinful curiosity and covetousness led them to make the trial; and they had a mass of the most loathsome putrefaction for their pains. How gracious is God! He...
XVI. MANNA AND QUAILS (Exodus 16:1 P, Exodus 16:4 a(b) - Exodus 16:5 J, (Exodus 16:6 f.,...
MOSES SAID, LET NO MAN LEAVE OF IT, &C.— A striking peculiarity of this _bread from heaven_ is here mentioned, which abundantly proves to us, that it was different from common manna; for this putrifie...
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...
God's gift is spoiled by selfish and miserly hoarding....
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...
IT BRED WORMS. — On the Sabbath it bred no worms (Exodus 16:24), so that we must view the result spoken of as a punishment for disobedience, not as produced naturally. Neither of the natural mannas _i...
וְ לֹא ־שָׁמְע֣וּ אֶל ־מֹשֶׁ֗ה וַ יֹּותִ֨רוּ
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...
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and (i) stank: and Moses was wroth with them. (i) No creature is so pure, but being ab...
_Putrified. So God was pleased to punish their diffidence in Providence. (Haydock)_...
Oh! the sad mistrusting heart of unbelief, Reader! do you not sometimes groan from the indwelling remains of it? See Psalms 78:19....
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...
NOTWITHSTANDING THEY HEARKENED NOT UNTO MOSES,.... That is, not all of them, some of them did, and perhaps the far greater part of them: BUT SOME OF THEM LEFT IT UNTIL THE MORNING; out of distrust, f...
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them. Ver. 20. _Left of it until, &c._] Either thr...
Exo. 16:19, 20. "Let no man leave of it till the morning," etc. Hereby perhaps we are designed to be taught our absolute dependence every day upon God, for the supplies of his grace and spiritual food...
_Some of them left of it till the morning_ Either distrusting God's providence, for a future supply, or out of curiosity to learn the nature of this _manna_, and what they might do if occasion require...
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;...
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 stan...
"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 16:20 heed H8085 (H8804) Moses H4872 some H582 left H3498 (H8686) morning H1242 bred H7311 ...
‘And Moses said to them, “Let no man leave of it until the morning.” In spite of this they did not listen to Moses but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses...
LEFT As we are not nourished by the memory of food, so neither can spirituality be sustained on past appropriations of Christ....
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...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 16:20 When the people do not LISTEN TO MOSES, they are not obeying the Lord, who chose Moses to lead them. ⇐...
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...
bred worms Matthew 6:19 Luke 12:15 Luke 12:33 Hebrews 13:5 James 5:2...