Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880], at sacred-texts.com
Exodus Chapter 16
Overview
Exo 16:1, The Israelites come to Sin, and murmur for want of bread; Exo 16:4, God promises them bread and flesh from heaven, and they are rebuked; Exo 16:13, Quails and manna are sent; Exo 16:16, The ordering of manna; Exo 16:25, It was not to be found on the sabbath; Exo 16:32, An omer of it is preserved.
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took: Exo 15:27; Num 33:10-12
Sin: This desert was traversed by Dr. Shaw in nine hours. He was all the day diverted by varieties of lizards and vipers, which abound there. Exo 17:1; Num 33:12; Eze 30:15, Eze 30:16
Exo 15:24; Gen 19:4; Psa 106:7, Psa 106:13, Psa 106:25; Co1 10:10
Would: Num 20:3-5; Deu 28:67; Jos 7:7; Sa2 18:33; Lam 4:9; Act 26:29; Co1 4:8; Co2 11:1
we had: Num 11:15, Num 14:2; Job 3:1, Job 3:10, Job 3:20; Jer 20:14-18; Jon 4:8, Jon 4:9
flesh: Exo 2:23; Num 11:4, Num 11:5
to kill: Exo 5:21, Exo 17:3; Num 16:13, Num 16:41
hunger: Deu 8:3; Jer 2:6; Lam 4:9
I will rain: Psa 78:24, Psa 78:25, Psa 105:40; Joh 6:31, Joh 6:32; Co1 10:3
a certain rate every day: Heb. the portion of a day in his day, Neh 11:23; Pro 30:8; Mat 6:11, Mat 6:32, Mat 6:33; Luk 11:3
prove them: Exo 15:25; Deu 8:2, Deu 8:16; Jos 24:15
prepare: Exo 16:23, Exo 35:2, Exo 35:3; Lev 25:21, Lev 25:22
even: Exo 16:8, Exo 16:12, Exo 16:13
the Lord: Exo 16:3, Exo 6:7, Exo 12:51, Exo 32:1, Exo 32:7, Exo 32:11; Num 16:28, Num 16:30; Psa 77:20; Isa 63:11, Isa 63:12
the morning: Exo 16:13
ye shall: Exo 16:10, Exo 24:10, Exo 24:16, Exo 40:34; Lev 9:6; Num 14:10, Num 16:42; Isa 35:2, Isa 40:5; Joh 11:4, Joh 11:40
what are we: Exo 16:2, Exo 16:3, Exo 16:8; Num 16:11
the Lord heareth: Exo 16:9, Exo 16:12; Num 14:27; Mat 9:4; Joh 6:41-43; Co1 10:10
but against: Num 21:7; Sa1 8:7; Isa 32:6, Isa 37:29; Mat 10:40; Luk 10:16; Joh 13:20; Rom 13:2; Th1 4:8
Come near: Num 16:16
that they: Exo 16:7; Num 14:10, Num 16:19, Num 16:42
appeared: Exo 13:21, Exo 13:22, Exo 40:34-38; Lev 9:6; Num 16:42; Kg1 8:10, Kg1 8:11; Mat 17:5
I have: Exo 16:8
At even: Exo 16:6
in the morning: Exo 16:7
ye shall know: Exo 4:5, Exo 6:7, Exo 7:17; Jer 31:24; Eze 34:30, Eze 39:22; Joe 3:17; Zac 13:9
the quails: The Hebrew TransHebrew}}selav, Chaldee selaiv, Syriac and Arabic selwa, is without doubt the quail, so the LXX render it ορτυγομητρα, a large kind of quail. Josephus, ορτυξ, Ethopic, ferferat, and Vulgate, coturnices, quails, with which agree Philo and the Rabbins. The quail is a bird of the gallinaceous kind, somewhat less than a pigeon, but larger than a sparrow. Hasselquist describes the quail of the larger kind as very much resembling the red partridge, but not larger than the turtle dove; found in Judea as well as in the deserts of Arabia Petra and Egypt; and affording a most agreeable and delicate dish. Num 11:31-33; Psa 78:27, Psa 78:28, Psa 105:40
the dew: Num 11:9
the dew: Num 11:7-9; Deu 8:3; Neh 9:15; Psa 78:24, Psa 105:40
the hoar frost: Psa 147:16
It is manna: or, What is this, or, It is a portion, Exo 16:31, Exo 16:33; Deu 8:3, Deu 8:16; Jos 5:12; Neh 9:15, Neh 9:20; Joh 6:31, Joh 6:32, Joh 6:49, Joh 6:58; Co1 10:3; Heb 9:4; Rev 2:17
This is: Exo 16:4; Num 21:5; Pro 9:5; Luk 12:30
omer: Exo 16:18, Exo 16:33, Exo 16:36
for every man: Heb. by the poll, or head
persons: Heb. souls.
Exo 12:10, Exo 23:18; Mat 6:34
bred worms: Mat 6:19; Luk 12:15, Luk 12:33; Heb 13:5; Jam 5:2, Jam 5:3
and Moses: Num 12:3, Num 16:15; Mar 3:5, Mar 10:14; Eph 4:26
Pro 6:6-11; Ecc 9:10, Ecc 12:1; Mat 6:33; Joh 12:35; Co2 6:2
What the substance called manna was, is utterly unknown, but, from the circumstances in the text, it is evident that it was not a natural production, but was miraculously sent by Jehovah. These the learned Abarbinel, a most judicious Jewish interpreter, has thus enumerated:
- The natural manna was never found in the desert where this fell where the common manna does fall;
- It is only in the spring time, in March and April, whereas this fell throughout all the months in the year;
- The ordinary manna does not melt in the sun, as this did (Exo 16:21);
- It does not stink and breed worms, as this did, when kept till the morning (Exo 16:20);
- It cannot be ground or beaten in a mortar, so as to make cakes, as this was;
- The common manna is medicinal and purgative, and cannot be used for food and nutriment, as this was;
- This fell in a double proportion on the sixth day, and not on the sabbath, as it certainly would have done had it fallen naturally;
- It followed them in all their journeys, where ever they pitched their tents; and
- It ceased at the very time of the year when the other falls, namely, in March, when the Israelites were come to Gilgal.
Whatever this substance was, it does not appear to have been common to the wilderness. From Deu 8:3, Deu 8:16, it is evident that the Israelites never saw it before; and from a pot of it being preserved, it is certain that nothing of the kind ever appeared again.
Exo 16:5, Exo 16:16; Lev 25:12, Lev 25:22
rest: Exo 20:8-11, Exo 31:15, Exo 35:3; Gen 2:2, Gen 2:3; Lev 23:3; Mar 2:27, Mar 2:28; Luk 23:56; Rev 1:10
bake: Num 11:8
Exo 16:23, Exo 16:29; Neh 9:14
Exo 20:9-11; Deu 5:13; Eze 46:1; Luk 13:14
and they found none: Pro 20:4
Exo 10:3; Num 14:11, Num 20:12; Kg2 17:14; Psa 78:10, Psa 78:22, Psa 81:13, Psa 81:14, Psa 106:13; Isa 7:9, Isa 7:13; Jer 4:14, Jer 9:6; Eze 5:6, Eze 20:13, Eze 20:16; Mar 9:19
hath given: Exo 31:13; Neh 9:14; Isa 58:13, Isa 58:14; Eze 20:12
abide ye: Luk 23:56
Lev 23:3; Deu 5:12-14; Heb 4:9
called the name: Exo 16:15 In consequence of the term manna having been given to a drug which is now much used in England, many persons have ignorantly supposed it to be the same sort of thing as that miraculously sent for the sustenance of the children of Israel in the wilderness. The manna of commerce comes from Calabria and Sicily, where it oozes out of a kind of ash tree, from the end of June to the end of July, and is a thick, clammy, sweet juice, partly drawn from the tree by the rays of the sun, partly by the puncture of insects, and partly by artificial means. The European manna is not so good as the Oriental, which is gathered in Syria, Arabia, and Persia, from the Oriental oak, and from a shrub which is called in Persia teranjabin.
and it was: Num 11:6, Num 11:7; Sol 2:3
Psa 103:1, Psa 103:2, Psa 105:5, Psa 111:4, Psa 111:5; Luk 22:19; Heb 2:1
Exo 25:16, Exo 25:21, Exo 27:21, Exo 30:6, Exo 30:36, Exo 31:18, Exo 38:21, Exo 40:20; Num 1:50, Num 1:53, Num 17:10; Deu 10:5; Kg1 8:9
forty years: Num 33:38; Deu 8:2, Deu 8:3; Neh 9:15, Neh 9:20, Neh 9:21; Psa 78:24, Psa 78:25; John 6:30-58
until they came to: Jos 5:12
the borders: Num 33:48-50; Deu 1:8, Deu 34:1-4