Êxodo 16:14 NVT

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 16:13-31

Divine provision for daily need. I. THE LORD 'S FAITHFULNESS . 1 . Their varied need was met. Flesh as well as bread was given. God gives us richly all things to enjoy. 2 . They came in the order and at the time God said they would come. The evening brought the quails—the morning the manna. Nothing failed of all that he had promised. 3 . They were given in abundance. The quails "covered the camp;" of the manna they "had no lack." There is princely bounty with God for... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 16:14

When the dew that lay was gone up. The moisture which lay upon the herbage soon evaporated, drawn up by the sun; and then the miracle revealed itself. There remained upon each leaf and each blade of grass a delicate small substance, compared here to hoar frost , and elsewhere ( Numbers 11:7 ) to "coriander seed," which was easily detached and collected in bags or baskets. The thing was altogether a novelty to the Israelites, though analogous in some degree to natural processes still... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 16:14-18

Bread from heaven. Our Lord tells us that the manna was a type of him, and that he was the "true bread from heaven" ( John 6:32 ). We may profitably consider, in what respects the type held good. I. IT WAS THE NOURISHMENT OF THE BODY , AS CHRIST IS OF THE SOUL . The manna constituted almost the sole nourishment of the Israelites from this time forth until they entered Canaan ( Joshua 5:12 ). So Christ is the food of the soul during its entire pilgrimage... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 16:14

Exodus 16:14. When the dew was gone up To wit, into the air; or was vanished, there lay a small round thing According to Numbers 11:9, there was a dew which fell before the manna; for it is said, when the dew fell in the night, the manna fell upon it. But it appears here, that there was also a dew upon it, which went up when the sun rose. So that the manna lay as it were enclosed. This might be designed to keep it pure and clean. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 16:1-36

Complaints about food (16:1-36)The people soon forgot God’s goodness to them in giving them water, and complained against him again. This time their complaint was that they had no food (16:1-3). Once more God lovingly gave his people what they needed. From this time on till they entered Canaan, their regular food would be a flake-like substance that they had never seen before. They called the food manna (meaning ‘What is it?’), because they did not know what else to call it (4; see v. 15).God... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 16:14

small = thin. round thing = flakey. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 16:13-15

"And it came to pass at even, that the quails came up and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about every camp. And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness a small round thing, small as the hoar-frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is it? for they knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them, It is the bread which Jehovah hath given you to eat."These verses record the coming of the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 16:14

Exodus 16:14. When the dew was gone, behold, &c.— Let us just observe, how unnecessary the expletive words are here. Read the passage without them, and you will see its greater propriety. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 16:13-21

"These [quail still] fly in such dense masses that the Arab boys often kill two or three at a time, by merely striking at them with a stick as they fly. . . . But in spring the quails also come northwards in immense masses from the interior of Africa, and return in autumn, when they sometimes arrive so exhausted, that they can be caught with the hand. . . ." [Note: Keil and Delitzsch, 2:66-67.] Egyptian art pictures people catching the birds in hand nets. [Note: Hannah, p. 134.] The Hebrew word... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 16:1-36

Third Murmuring. Sending of the Manna1. 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. border of the peninsula: see on Exodus 15:22. All the stations in the march are not mentioned. In Numbers 33:10 allusion is made to an ’encampment by the Red Sea’ between Elim and the wilderness of Sin. It must be remembered also that, owing to the vast extent of the host, there must have been a... read more