Num 11:21-23, 2Ki 4:42-44, 7:2, Psa 78:19-20, Mat 15:33, Mar 6:36-37, 52 | TSK

Numbers 11:21-23

1:46; 2:32; Ge 12:2; Ex 12:37; 38:26 There is certainly a considerable measure of weakness and unbelief manifested in these complaints and questions of Moses; but his conduct appears at the same time so very simple, honest, and affectionate, that we cannot but admire it, while we wonder that he had not stronger confidence in that God, whose stupendous miracles he had so often witnessed in Egypt.

2Ki 7:2; Mt 15:33; Mr 6:37; 8:4; Lu 1:18,34; Joh 6:6,7,9

Is the Lord's.That is, "Is the power of the Lord diminished?" That power which has been so signally displayed on your behalf, and which is as unchangeable as it is unlimited.

Ge 18:14; Ps 78:41; Isa 50:2; 59:1; Mic 2:7; Mt 19:26; Lu 1:37

thou shalt.

23:19; 2Ki 7:2,17-19; Jer 44:28,29; Eze 12:25; 24:14; Mt 24:35

2 Kings 4:42-44

Baal-shalisha.

1Sa 9:4,7

bread.

38; Ex 23:16; De 12:6; 26:2-10; 1Sa 9:7; 2Ch 11:13,14; Pr 3:9,10

1Co 9:11; Ga 6:6

of barley.

7:1,16-18; De 8:8; 32:14; Joh 6:9,13

the husk thereof. or, his scrip, or garment.Note: Parched corn, or corn to be parched; full ears before they are ripe, parched on the fire: a very frequent food in the East. The loaves were probably extremely small, as their loaves of bread still are in eastern countries. But small as this may appear, it would be a considerable present in the time of famine; though very inadequate to the number of persons. Baal-shalisha, of which the person who made this seasonable present was an inhabitant, was situated, according to Eusebius and Jerome, fifteen miles north of Diospolis, or Lydda.

his servitor.

What.

Mt 14:16,17; 15:33,34; Mr 6:37-39; 8:4; Lu 9:13; Joh 6:9

They shall eat.

Mt 14:20; 15:37; 16:8-10; Mr 6:42,43; 8:20; Lu 9:17; Joh 6:11-13