Exodus 16:8-36 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 16:1-12

The host of Israel, it seems, took along with them out of Egypt, when they came thence on the fifteenth day of the first month, a month's provisions, which, by the fifteenth day of the second month, was all spent; and here we have, I. Their discontent and murmuring upon that occasion, Exod. 16:2, 3. The whole congregation, the greatest part of them, joined in this mutiny; it was not immediately against God that they murmured, but (which was equivalent) against Moses and Aaron, God's... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 16:13-21

Now they begin to be provided for by the immediate hand of God. I. He makes them a feast, at night, of delicate fowl, feathered fowl (Ps. 78:27), therefore not locusts, as some think; quails, or pheasants, or some wild fowl, came up, and covered the camp, so tame that they might take up as many of them as they pleased. Note, God gives us of the good things of this life, not only for necessity, but for delight, that we may not only serve him, but serve him cheerfully. II. Next morning he rained... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 16:22-31

We have here, 1. A plain intimation of the observing of a seventh day sabbath, not only before the giving of the law upon Mount Sinai, but before the bringing of Israel out of Egypt, and therefore, from the beginning, Gen. 2:3. If the sabbath had now been first instituted, how could Moses have understood what God said to him (Exod. 16:5), concerning a double portion to be gathered on the sixth day, without making any express mention of the sabbath? And how could the people so readily take the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 16:32-36

God having provided manna to be his people's food in the wilderness, and to be to them a continual feast, we are here told, 1. How the memory of it was preserved. An omer of this manna was laid up in a golden pot, as we are told (Heb. 9:4), and kept before the testimony, or the ark, when it was afterwards made, Exod. 16:32-34. The preservation of this manna from waste and corruption was a standing miracle, and therefore the more proper memorial of this miraculous food. ?Posterity shall see the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 16:8

And Moses said, this shall be ,.... Which supplement may be left out: when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat ; cause the quails to come up, and fall about their tents: and in the morning bread to the full ; by raining it from heaven all around them: for that , or rather "then" F11 בשמע "testabitur se audisse", Tigurine version. : the Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him ; it will then appear that he has heard them, and taken... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 16:9

And Moses spake unto Aaron ,.... Who was his prophet and spokesman to the people: say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel ; to the heads of them, to as many as could conveniently hear him, and were to report what he said to the rest: come near before the Lord ; who was in the pillar of cloud, which from the first appearance of it never removed from them, nor the Lord from that; though some have thought, that before the tabernacle was built, there was some small tent... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 16:10

And it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel ,.... Before he had well done speaking: that they looked toward the wilderness ; they were already in the wilderness of Sin, and they looked straight forward toward that part of it which was yet before them, or to the wilderness of Sinai, which was right onward, and whither they were travelling: and, behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud ; which went before them; there was a more... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 16:11

And the Lord spake unto Moses ,.... Out of the bright and glorious cloud: saying ; as follows: read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 16:12

I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel ,.... This Moses and Aaron had often affirmed, and now the Lord confirms what they had said, and lets them know that he took notice of their murmurings, and disapproved of them, and was displeased with them; though he did not think fit to resent them in an angry way, but dealt kindly and graciously with them; and since he had brought them into a wilderness, which was his own act, he would take care of them, and provide for them; which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 16:13

And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up ,.... From the coasts of Egypt, from the Red sea, over which they flew; and being evening, and weary with flying so long, lighted and settled where the Israelites encamped. Josephus F12 Antiqu. l. 3. c. 1. sect. 5. says, about the Arabian gulf there are more of this sort of birds than any other, which flying over the sea, and being weary, and coming nearer the ground than other birds, and lighting among the Hebrews, they took them... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 16:1-12

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 16:13-21

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 16:22-31

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 16:32-36

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 16:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 16:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 16:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 16:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 16:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 16:13

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