4Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
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And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. …
And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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…
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