Numbers 11:9 (BSB)
When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.
From Numbers 11. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Numbers 11:9
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 11:4-15: These verses represent things sadly unhinged and out of order in Israel, both the people and the prince uneasy. I. Here is the people fretting, and speaking against God himself (as it is interpreted, Psa 78:19), notwithstanding his glorious appearances both to them and for them. Observe, 1. Who were the criminals. (1.) The mixed multitude began, they fell a lusting, Num 11:4.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 11:9: And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night,.... As it usually, and even constantly did: the manna fell upon it; as constantly, and had thereby a clean place to fall on; and then another dew fell upon that, which kept it the cleaner still, and from any vermin creeping upon it; see Exo 16:14; so careful was the Lord of this their...
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 11:4-9: Num 11:4-9 The first impulse to this came from the mob that had come out of Egypt along with the Israelites. “The mixed multitude:” see at Exo 12:38. They felt and expressed a longing for the better food which they had enjoyed in Egypt, and which was not to be had in the desert, and urged on the Israelites to cry out for flesh again...