Exodus 16:8-13 NIV

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 16:10

Exodus 16:10. They looked toward the wilderness, and—the glory of the Lord, &c.— It would seem, from this expression, as if the pillar of cloud was now removed to some distance from them; or perhaps it appeared not when they were stationed, being visible only when it conducted them in their marches: or, if it did constantly appear, the phrase toward the wilderness must here mean toward the front of their army. REFLECTIONS.—Fresh difficulties produce fresh murmurs. We have here, 1. The... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 16:13

Exodus 16:13. Quails— Ludolph has offered several arguments (in his Ethiop. Hist. lib. i. c. 13.) to prove, that the word השׂלו haslau ought to be rendered locusts; which, he thinks, best agrees with the circumstances of the narration. See Numbers 11:21. Parkhurst says, that שׂלו selau signifies a quail; a kind of bird so called from its living remarkably in ease and plenty among the corn. Hence, among the Egyptians, a quail was the emblem of ease and tranquillity; and this bird being generally... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 16:13

13-31. at even the quails came up, and covered the camp—This bird is of the gallinaceous kind [that is, relating to the order of heavy-bodied, largely terrestrial birds], resembling the red partridge, but not larger than the turtledove. They are found in certain seasons in the places through which the Israelites passed, being migratory birds, and they were probably brought to the camp by "a wind from the Lord" as on another occasion (Numbers 11:31). and in the morning . . . a small round thing... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 16:4-12

The manifestation of God’s glory was His regular provision of manna that began the next day and continued for 40 years (Exodus 16:7). The glory of the Lord here was the evidence of His presence in the cloudy pillar (Exodus 16:10). This was probably a flash of light and possibly thunder, both of which later emanated from the cloud over Mt. Sinai (cf. Exodus 19:18). 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

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 16:10

(10) The glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.—The Hebrew, as at present pointed, has “in a cloud,” but there can be no reasonable doubt that the “pillar of the cloud” is meant. It was before this that they had been required to appear (Exodus 16:9), and from this almost certainly that some bright radiance was now made to stream forth. The object was at once to rebuke their murmurings, and to uphold the authority of Moses and Aaron. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 16:13

(13) At even the quails came up.—The common quail (Tetrao coturnix) is very abundant in the East, and regularly migrates from Syria and Arabia in the autumn of the year for the purpose of wintering in Central Africa, whence it returns in immense masses in the spring (Schubert: Reise, vol. ii., p. 361). Exhausted after a long flight over the Red Sea, the flocks drop to the ground as soon as they reach the coast, and it is then easy either to take the birds with the hand or to kill them with... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Exodus 16:1-36

Exodus 16:2 It is 'worthy of remark,' Milton indignantly observes in his Second Defence, 'that those who are the most unworthy of liberty are wont to behave most ungratefully towards their deliverers'. Compare the further application of this passage by Milton in his tract on 'The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, and the Excellence thereof, compared with the Inconveniences and Dangers of Readmitting Kingship in this Nation'. Towards the close of his remonstrance, he writes... read more

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

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 16:10

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 16:13

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 16:13

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 16:4-12

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

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 16:10

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 16:13

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Exodus 16:1-36

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