Exodus 16:2 KJV — MannaFest

Exodus 16:2

And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:

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ASV

And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness:

WEB

And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.

YLT

And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

DBT

And the whole assembly of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness.

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Exodus — Deliverance, covenant, presence. A slave-people redeemed from Egypt, brought to Sinai, and given a tabernacle so that God might dwell among them.

Author: Moses — traditional attribution; internal narrator identifies Moses as recorder (17:14, 24:4, 34:27)
Date: 15th or 13th century BC, depending on chronology of the exodus

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Deuteronomy 8:3
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
Exodus 15:24
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
Psalms 106:13
They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
1 Corinthians 10:10
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
Exodus 17:3
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

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But this is too common with the wicked, (because they do not trust that God is reconciled to them,) to neglect prayer, and to cry out in confusion, to utter their curses, and to rush, like mad dogs, furiously here and there. This was the case of the Israelites in the wilderness of Sin.

John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554reformed

They invidiously charge Moses with a design to starve them when he brought them out of Egypt; whereas what he had done was both by order from God and with a design to promote their welfare. Note, It is no new thing for the greatest kindnesses to be misinterpreted and basely represented as the greatest injuries. The worst colours are sometimes put upon the best actions.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

the whole congregation . . . murmured against Moses and Aaron--Modern travellers through the desert of Sinai are accustomed to take as much as is sufficient for the sustenance of men and beasts during forty days.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Never was there such an open house kept as God kept in the wilderness for forty years together, nor such free and plentiful entertainment given. The feast which Ahasuerus made, to show the riches of his kingdom, and the honour of his majesty, was nothing to this, Esth. i.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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EXO 16:21CO 10:10 NUM 14:2
EXO 16:21CO 10:10 NUM 16:41
EXO 16:21CO 10:10 NUM 14:37
EXO 16:21CO 10:10 PHP 2:14
EXO 16:21CO 10:10 1CH 21:15
EXO 16:2EXO 14:11 NUM 14:1-4
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
EXO 16:2PSA 106:7 EXO 14:11-12
EXO 16:2EXO 15:24 NUM 20:2-5

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