Exo 16:15, 31, Num 11:6-9, Psa 78:24-25, Pro 27:7 | TSK | STEP | It is manna. or, What is this? or, It is a portion. This is.

Exodus 16:15

It is manna. or, What is this? or, It is a portion.

31,33; De 8:3,16; Jos 5:12; Ne 9:15,20; Joh 6:31,32,49,58

This is.

Exodus 16:31

called the name.

15In 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.

Nu 11:6,7; So 2:3

Numbers 11:6-9

21:5; 2Sa 13:4

the manna.

Ex 16:14,15,31; 1Co 1:23,24; Re 2:17

colour thereof as the colour of. Heb. eye of it as the eyeof. bdellium.

Ge 2:12

the people.

Ex 16:16-18; Joh 6:27,33-58

baked it.

Ex 16:23

taste of it.

Ex 16:31

Ex 16:13,14; De 32:2; Ps 78:23-25; 105:40

Psalms 78:24-25

had rained.

68:9; 105:40; Ex 16:4,14; De 8:3; Ne 9:15,20; Joh 6:31-71; 1Co 10:3

the corn of heaven.The manna fell about their camp in the form of seeds; and as it appeared to come down from the clouds, it was not improperly termed {degan shamayim,} the corn of heaven or heavenly grain. See notes on Ex 16:22, 31.

Man, etc.Or, Every one did eat the bread of the mighty. {Lechem abbeerim,} "bread of the mighty:"--they ate such food as could only be expected at the tables of the rich and great;--the best, the most delicate food. Or, it might be so called because it rendered the people healthy and vigorous, and fit for their marches.

103:20

he sent.

Ex 16:8; Mt 14:20; 15:37

Proverbs 27:7

full.

Nu 11:4-9,18-20; 21:5

loatheth. Heb. treadeth under foot. to.

Job 6:7; Lu 15:16,17; Joh 6:9