Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 16:20
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
It bred worms – This result was supernatural: no such tendency to rapid decomposition is recorded of common manna.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 20. It bred worms] Their sinful curiosity and covetousness led them to make the trial; and they had a mass of the most loathsome putrefaction for their pains. How gracious is God! He is continually rendering disobedience and sin irksome to the transgressor; that finding his evil ways to be unprofitable, he may return to his Maker, and trust in God alone.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Some of them left of it; either distrusting Gods providence for their future provisions; or out of curiosity to learn the nature of this manna, and what they might do when occasion required. It stank, not so much from its own nature, which was pure and durable, as from Gods judgment.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses,…. That is, not all of them, some of them did, and perhaps the far greater part of them:
but some of them left it until the morning; out of distrust, for fear they should have none the next day; being men of little faith, that could not trust God for a supply for the morrow; the Targum of Jonathan says, these were Dathan and Abiram; and so Jarchi:
and it bred worms, and stank; or by an “hysteron proteron”, and transposition of the words, the sense may be, that it stank, corrupted, and putrefied, and so produced worms, in which order the words lie, Ex 16:24, and this was not from the nature of the manna to breed worms so soon, but God so ordering and disposing it, that it should do so; for otherwise it would keep to another day, as what was gathered on the sixth day kept to the seventh, and there was a part of it kept for many ages, see Ex 16:24, and since the manna was of the meal kind, perhaps those worms it bred might be of the weevil sort, as Scheuchzer conjectures s:
and Moses was wroth with them; for breaking the commandment of God.
s Physica Sacra, vol. 2. p. 179.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(20) It bred worms.On the Sabbath it bred no worms (Exo. 16:24), so that we must view the result spoken of as a punishment for disobedience, not as produced naturally. Neither of the natural mannas is subject to any very rapid decomposition.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Oh! the sad mistrusting heart of unbelief, Reader! do you not sometimes groan from the indwelling remains of it? See Psa 78:19-20 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 16:20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
Ver. 20. Left of it until, &c. ] Either through distrust or curiosity.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
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As we are not nourished by the memory of food, so neither can spirituality be sustained on past appropriations of Christ.
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
bred worms: Mat 6:19, Luk 12:15, Luk 12:33, Heb 13:5, Jam 5:2, Jam 5:3
and Moses: Num 12:3, Num 16:15, Mar 3:5, Mar 10:14, Eph 4:26
Reciprocal: Exo 16:22 – General Exo 16:24 – General Exo 32:22 – knowest Lev 22:30 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Exo 16:20. Some of them left of it till the morning Either distrusting Gods providence, for a future supply, or out of curiosity to learn the nature of this manna, and what they might do if occasion required; it bred worms and stank Not so much of its own nature, which was pure and durable, as from Gods judgment. Thus will that be corrupted in which we do not trust in God, and which we do not employ for his glory.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
16:20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and {i} stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
(i) No creature is so pure, but being abused it turns to our destruction.