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 forefathers in the desert ate the manna, as the Scripture says, 'He gave them out of heaven bread to eat.'"

And are

1 Corinthians 10:3
and all ate the same spiritual food,
Hebrews 3:17
With whom was He disgusted forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the desert?
Jude 1:5
Now I want to remind you, though you know it all already, that although the Lord had saved a people out of the land of Egypt, He afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

General references

John 6:58
This is the bread that comes down out of heaven; not as your forefathers ate the manna, and yet died. Whoever continues to eat this bread will live forever."