Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

Fathers

General references

Bible References

Fathers

John 6:31
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’”

And are

Numbers 26:65
For the Lord had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” And not a man was left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
Zechariah 1:5
“Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
1 Corinthians 10:3
and all ate the same spiritual food;
Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Jude 1:5
Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.

General references

John 6:58
This is the bread which came down out of heaven; not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever.”