Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Exodus 16:17
Some more, some less According as their families were more or less numerous; or as the gatherers were more or less strong and active in gathering it.
Some more, some less According as their families were more or less numerous; or as the gatherers were more or less strong and active in gathering it.
Verse Exodus 16:17. _SOME MORE, SOME LESS._] According to their respective families, an _omer_ for a man; and according to the number of infirm persons whose wants they undertook to supply....
SOME MORE, SOME LESS - It is evidently implied that the people were in part at least disobedient and failed in this first trial....
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...
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 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID SO, AND GATHERED, SOME MORE, SOME LESS._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
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...
וַ יַּעֲשׂוּ ־כֵ֖ן בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַֽ יּ
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...
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...
17._And the children of Israel did so. _I do not think that the obedience of the people is here greatly praised; since soon afterwards Moses adds that some, not contented with their due allowance, col...
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 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID SO,.... They went out of the camp in the morning when it was fallen, and gathered it; which is expressive of believers going out of the camp, leaving the world, and all...
And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. Ver. 17. _Some more, some less._] _Secundum proportionem arithmeticam, sed non secundum propertionem geometricam._ As a man had...
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;...
Either, 1. According as their families were more or less numerous. Or rather, 2. As the gatherers were more or less strong and active in gathering it....
"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 16:17 children H1121 Israel H3478 did H6213 (H8799) gathered H3950 (H8799) more H7235 (H8688) less...
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...