Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 16:11
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
11. Jehovah, who has thus manifested Himself, now declares His will to Moses. Notice ‘flesh,’ as well as ‘bread,’ here, as against ‘bread’ alone in the promise of v. 4 (J).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The Lord spake, or, had spoken, to wit, before, by comparing this with Exo 16:7.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And the Lord spake unto Moses,…. Out of the bright and glorious cloud:
saying; as follows:
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Verse 11-15:
Moses relayed Jehovah’s promise to Israel, that He would supply meat and bread in abundance. At the appointed time, He kept His word. Huge coveys of quails flew into the camp-site, see Ps 78:28. History confirms that quails regularly migrate from Syria and Arabia in the Fall; they winter in Arabia; and return northward in immense masses in the Spring. As they came to the coast after the flight across the Red Sea, they are exhausted. They fall to the ground, where they can be easily captured by hand, or killed with sticks.
The quail migration is a natural phenomenon. The quantities on this occasion were miraculous, as was the timing of this event.
The “bread” which Jehovah supplies was miraculous. When the dew dried from the ground each morning, there was left behind a substance resembling frost. The Israelites did not know what this was, so they named it “manna,” manah, “what is it?”
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
11. And the Lord spoke (174) unto Moses Moses here shows that he had done nothing without God’s command, but had faithfully and modestly discharged the office of a minister. And, surely, unless he had spoken according to God’s word, he would have been rash in promising what we have already seen. Therefore, this is put last in order, though it happened first; and, consequently, I have used (175) the causal particle instead of the copula. The sum is, as before, that God will vindicate His own glory, which the people had impiously impugned, and that He would do good to them, unworthy as they were, in order to glorify His name; as if He had said, After you shall have been convicted of ingratitude, you will then be obliged to confess that I am really the only God, and at the same time your Father.
(174) Had spoken. — Lat.
(175) J’ai mis le mot Car, pource que ceste sentence rend la raison du precedent. — Fr.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
There are two sweet and precious points intimated in these words; the one is, that God undertakes to supply all the wants of his people. Their eyes are to be taken off from Moses, and to be directed to the Lord. Joh 6:32 . The other is, that thereby he proves himself to be their God, and they his people. How much Moses, in the after stages of Israel’s history, dwells upon those glorious truths? Deu 32:9-14Deu 32:9-14 . Reader! may it be your happiness and mine, to know that the Lord is our God in the same covenant way, and from the same covenant tokens.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 16:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Ver. 11. And the Lord spake, ] i.e., He had before spoken.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the LORD spake. See note on Exo 6:10, and compare note on Exo 3:7.