20But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
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And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: …
And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.
The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-23)We have here God’s gracious answer to both the foregoing complaints, wherein his goodness takes occasion from man’s badness to appear so much the more illustrious. I. Provision is made for the redress of the grievances Moses complains of. If he find the weight of government lie too heavy upon him, though he was a little too passionate in his remonstrance, yet he shall be eased, not by being discar…
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