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 [in Scripture], ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’”
And are
Numbers 26:65
For the Lord had said of them, “They shall certainly 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 [of them] 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 dead bodies were scattered in the desert?
Jude 1:5
Now I want to remind you, although you are fully informed once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe [who refused to trust and obey and rely on Him].
General references
John 6:58 This is the Bread which came down out of heaven. It is not like [the manna that] our fathers ate and they [eventually] died; the one who eats this Bread [believes in Me, accepts Me as Savior] will live forever.”