That I may prove them - The trial consisted in the restriction to the supply of their daily wants.

I will rain bread from heaven for you. — This first announcement at once suggests that the supply is to be supernatural. …

See God's answer to man's murmuring. They send up their complaint, and he promises to rain bread down from above. It is a blessed story on God's pa…

Then said the Lord unto Moses. It is probable that Moses passes over much in silence, because it is unlikely that the insolence of the peo…

Then said the Lord to Moses
Who no doubt has been praying to him, as was his usual manner, when the people were in d…

The provisions of Israel, brought from Egypt, were spent by the middle of the second month, and they murmured. It is nothing new for the greatest k…