Exodus 15:22--18:27
Desert ... Shur ........ desert <07793 04057> [wilderness of Shur.]
This lay on the eastern shore of the Heroopolitic gulf of the Red Sea, and is still called the desert of Shur, according to Dr. Shaw.
three days <07969 03117> [three days.]
Marah ............ Marah ............ Marah <04785> [Marah.]
Marah ............ Marah ............ Marah <04785> [Marah. i.e., bitterness.]
drink <08354> [What.]
cried out <06817> [cried.]
tree <06086> [a tree.]
ordinance <02706> [a statute.]
tested <05254> [proved.]
diligently obey <08085> [If thou.]
do .......... attention <06213 0238> [and wilt.]
diseases <04245> [diseases.]
Lord .......................................... Lord <03068> [for I am.]
Elim <0362> [Elim.]
This was on the northern skirts of the desert of Sin, and, according to Dr. Shaw, two leagues from Tor, and near 30 from Corondel, which he conjectures to be Marah, where there is a small rill, which is brackish. He found but nine of the wells, the other three being filled up with sand; but the 70 palm trees had increased into more than 2,000.
journeyed <05265> [A.M. 2513. B.C. 1491. An. Ex. Is. 1. Ijar. took.]
Sin <05512> [Sin.]
This desert was traversed by Dr. Shaw in nine hours. He was all the day diverted by varieties of lizards and vipers, which abound there.
only <04310> [Would.]
died ...................................... kill <04191> [we had.]
meat <01320> [flesh.]
died ...................................... kill <04191> [to kill.]
hunger <07458> [hunger.]
rain <04305> [I will rain.]
amount ... each day <01697 03117> [a certain rate every day. Heb. the portion of a day in his day.]
test <05254 03212> [prove them.]
prepare <03559> [prepare.]
evening <06153> [even.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
morning <01242> [the morning.]
see <07200> [ye shall.]
<05168> [what are we.]
Lord .................... Lord ... heard ......................... Lord <08085 03068> [the Lord heareth.]
Lord .................... Lord ........................... Lord <03068> [but against.]
Come <07126> [Come near.]
heard <08085> [heard.]
looked <06437> [that they.]
appeared <07200> [appeared.]
heard <08085> [I have.]
During <0996> [At even.]
morning <01242> [in the morning.]
know <03045> [ye shall know.]
quail <07958> [the quails.]
The Hebrew {selav,} Chaldee {selaiv,} Syriac and Arabic {selwa,} is without doubt the quail: so the LXX. render it [ortygom‚tre,] a large kind of quail. Josephus, [ortyx,] Ethopic, {ferferat,} and Vulgate, {coturnices,} quails, with which agree Philo and the Rabbins. The quail is a bird of the gallinaceous kind, somewhat less than a pigeon, but larger than a sparrow. Hasselquist describes the quail of the larger kind as very much resembling the red partridge, but not larger than the turtle dove; found in Judea as well as in the deserts of Arabia Petra‘ and Egypt; and affording a most agreeable and delicate dish.
dew <02919> [the dew.]
dew <02919> [the dew.]
frost <03713> [the hoar frost.]
<04478> [It is manna. or, What is this? or, It is a portion.]
bread <03899> [This is.]
omer <06016> [omer.]
per person <01538> [for every man. Heb. by the poll, or head. persons. Heb. souls.]
full ... worms <08438 07311> [bred worms.]
Moses .................... Moses <04872> [and Moses.]
What the substance called manna was, is utterly unknown, but, from the circumstances in the text, it is evident that it was not a natural production, but was miraculously sent by Jehovah. These the learned Abarbinel, a most judicious Jewish interpreter, has thus enumerated: The natural manna was never found in the desert where this fell;--where the common manna does fall, it is only in the spring time, in March and April, whereas this fell throughout all the months in the year; the ordinary manna does not melt in the sun, as this did (ver. 21);--it does not stink and breed worms, as this did, when kept till the morning (ver. 20);--it cannot be ground or beaten in a mortar, so as to make cakes, as this was;--the common manna is medicinal and purgative, and cannot be used for food and nutriment, as this was;--this fell in a double proportion on the sixth day, and not on the sabbath, as it certainly would have done had it fallen naturally;--it followed them in all their journeys, where ever they pitched their tents;--and it ceased at the very time of the year when the other falls, namely, in March, when the Israelites were come to Gilgal. Whatever this substance was, it does not appear to have been common to the wilderness. From De 8:3, 16, it is evident that the Israelites never saw it before; and from a pot of it being preserved, it is certain that nothing of the kind ever appeared again.
cessation from work <07677> [rest.]
bake bake <0644> [bake.]
found <04672> [and they found none.]
given .......... giving <05414> [hath given.]
Each .... stay <03427 0376> [abide ye.]
called ... name <07121 08034> [called the name.]
In consequence of the term manna having been given to a drug which is now much used in England, many persons have ignorantly supposed it to be the same sort of thing as that miraculously sent for the sustenance of the children of Israel in the wilderness. The manna of commerce comes from Calabria and Sicily, where it oozes out of a kind of ash tree, from the end of June to the end of July, and is a thick, clammy, sweet juice, partly drawn from the tree by the rays of the sun, partly by the puncture of insects, and partly by artificial means. The European manna is not so good as the Oriental, which is gathered in Syria, Arabia, and Persia, from the Oriental oak, and from a shrub which is called in Persia {teranjabin.}
coriander <01407> [and it was.]
forty years <0705 08141> [forty years.]
[until they come to.]
border <07097> [the borders.]
Sin <05512> [Sin.]
Rephidim <07508> [Rephidim.]
people <05971> [the people.]
Give ... water <05414 04325> [Give us.]
people .......................... test <05971 05254> [wherefore.]
bring ... up <05927> [thou hast.]
cried out <06817> [cried.]
little <04592> [almost.]
Go <05674> [Go on.]
staff <04294> [thy rod.]
standing <05975> [I will.]
rock ......... rock <06697> [the rock.]
This rock, which is a vast block of red granite, 15 feet long, 10 broad, and 12 high, lies in the wilderness of Rephidim, to the west of Mount Horeb, a part of Sinai. There are abundant traces of this wonderful miracle remaining at this day. This rock has been visited, drawn, and described by Dr. Shaw and others; and holes and channels appear in the stone, which could only have been formed by the bursting out and running of water.
Horeb <02722> [in Horeb.]
strike <05221> [and thou.]
people <05971> [that the people.]
Massah <04532> [Massah. i.e., Temptation.]
Meribah <04809> [Meribah. that is, Chiding or Strife.]
contending <07379> [chiding.]
testing <05254> [tempted.]
Lord ... Is ... Lord <03068 03426> [Is the Lord.]
Joshua <03091> [unto Joshua.]
[Oshea. Jehoshua.]
[Hoshea. Called Jesus.]
Choose <0977> [Choose.]
staff <04294> [the rod.]
Joshua <03091> [Joshua.]
Moses ...... Moses <04872> [and Moses.]
Hur <02354> [Hur.]
hands ... Moses .................... hands .............. hands <03027 04872> [Moses' hands.]
hands ................... held up ... hands .............. hands <03027 08551> [stayed up his hands.]
memorial <02146> [memorial.]
surely wipe out <04229> [for I will.]
remembrance <02143> [the remembrance.]
<03071> [JEHOVAH-nissi. i.e., the Lord my banner.]
Lord <03050> [Because, etc. or, Because the hand of Amalek is against the throne of the Lord, therefore, etc. the Lord, etc. Heb. the hand upon the throne of the Lord.]
war <04421> [will have war.]
Jethro <03503> [Jethro.]
heard <08085> [heard.]
God <0430> [God.]
done <06213> [done.]
Zipporah <06855> [Zipporah.]
two sons <01121 08147> [two sons.]
Gershom <01647> [Gershom. i.e., A stranger there.]
Eliezer <0461> [Eliezer. i.e., my God is an help.]
delivered <05337> [delivered.]
out <03318> [went.]
bowed <07812> [did obeisance.]
kissed <05401> [kissed.]
welfare <07965> [welfare. Heb. peace.]
told <05608> [told.]
hardship <08513> [and all the.]
way <04672 01870> [come upon them. Heb found them.]
Lord ........................... Lord <03068> [how the Lord.]
know <03045> [Now I.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
thing <01697> [in the thing.]
proudly <02102> [proudly.]
brought <03947> [took.]
Aaron <0175> [Aaron.]
eat food <03899 0398> [eat bread.]
inquire <01875> [to enquire.]
dispute <01697> [a matter.]
man .... neighbor <07453 0376> [one and another. Heb. a man and his fellow.]
known <03045> [make.]
surely wear <05034> [Thou wilt surely wear away. Heb. Fading thou wilt fade.]
able <03201> [thou art.]
listen <08085> [Hearken.]
God ............. God ........ God <0430 01961> [God shall.]
people <05971> [Be thou.]
bring <0935> [bring.]
warn <02094> [teach.]
way <01870> [the way.]
work <04639> [work.]
choose <02372> [Moreover.]
capable <02428 0582> [able men.]
God-fearing <03373> [such as.]
<0582> [men.]
hate <08130> [hating.]
rulers ... thousands rulers .... rulers ..... rulers <0505 08269> [rulers of thousands.]
Whatever matter the {decarch,} or ruler over ten, could not decide, went to the {pentecontarch,} or ruler of fifty, and thence by degrees to the {hecatontarch,} or ruler over a hundred, to the {chiliarch,} or ruler over a thousand, to Moses, and at length to God himself. Each magistrate had the care or inspection of only ten men; the {decarch} superintended ten private characters; the {hecatontarch} ten {decarchs;} and the {chiliarch,} ten {hecatontarchs.}
normal <06256> [at all seasons.]
difficult <01419> [great.]
judge ............. bring ........... judge .............. bear <0935 08199 05375> [they shall.]
God <0430> [God.]
people <05971> [and all this.]
normal <06256> [at all.]
difficult cases <07186 01697> [the hard causes.]
