Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

Bible References

Fathers

John 6:49
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
Exodus 16:4
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will cause bread to rain from heaven for you; the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, so that I may test them [to determine] whether or not they will walk [obediently] in My instruction (law).
Numbers 11:6
But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing at all [in the way of food] to be seen but this manna.”
Deuteronomy 8:3
He humbled you and allowed you to be hungry and fed you with manna, [a substance] which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, so that He might make you understand [by personal experience] that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.
Joshua 5:12
And the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten some of the produce of the land, so that the Israelites no longer had manna, but they ate some of the produce of the land of Canaan during that year.
Nehemiah 9:20

“You [also] gave Your good Spirit to instruct them,
You did not withhold Your manna from their mouth,
And You gave them water for their thirst.
Psalm 105:40

The Israelites asked, and He brought quail,
And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

He gave

Nehemiah 9:15

“You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger,
And brought water for them out of a rock for their thirst,
And You told them to enter and take possession of
The land that You swore to give them.
Psalm 78:24

And He rained down manna upon them to eat
And gave them the grain of heaven.
1 Corinthians 10:3
and all [of them] ate the same spiritual food;
Revelation 2:17
He who has an ear, let him hear and heed what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes [the world through believing that Jesus is the Son of God], to him I will give [the privilege of eating] some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone with a new name engraved on the stone which no one knows except the one who receives it.’