Torrey's Topical Index
Manna
Miraculously given to Israel for food in the wilderness—Ex
16:4,15; Ne
9:15
CALLED
Previously unknown—De
8:3,16
DESCRIBED AS
- Like coriander seed
- —Ex 16:31; Nu 11:7
- White
- —Ex 16:31
- Like in colour to bdellium
- —Nu 11:7
- Like in taste to wafers made with honey
- —Ex 16:31
- Like in taste to oil
- —Nu 11:8
- Like hoar frost
- —Ex 16:14
Fell after the evening dew—Nu
11:9
None fell on the Sabbath day—Ex
16:26,27
Gathered every morning—Ex
16:21
An omer of, gathered for each person—Ex
16:16
Two portions of, gathered the sixth day on account of the Sabbath—Ex
16:5,22-26
He that gathered much or little had sufficient and nothing over—Ex
16:18
Melted away by the sun—Ex
16:21
GIVEN
- When Israel murmured for bread
- —Ex 16:2,3
- In answer to prayer
- —Ps 105:40
- Through Moses
- —Joh 6:31,32
- To exhibit God's glory
- —Ex 16:7
- As a sign of Moses's divine mission
- —Joh 6:30,31
- For forty years
- —Ne 9:21
- As a test of obedience
- —Ex 16:4
- To teach that man does not live by bread only
- —De 8:3; Mt 4:4
- To humble and prove Israel
- —De 8:16
Kept longer than a day (except on the Sabbath) became corrupt—Ex
16:19,20
THE ISRAELITES
- At first covetous of
- —Ex 16:17
- Ground, made into cakes and baked in pans
- —Nu 11:8
- Counted inferior to food of Egypt
- —Nu 11:4-6
- Loathed
- —Nu 21:5
- Punished for despising
- —Nu 11:10-20
- Punished for loathing
- —Nu 21:6
Ceased when Israel entered Canaan—Ex
16:35; Jos
5:12
ILLUSTRATIVE OF
- Christ
- —Joh 6:32-35
- Blessedness given to saints
- —Re 2:17
A golden pot of, laid up in the holiest for a memorial—Ex
16:32-34; Heb
9:4