Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
Fathers
And are
General references
Bible References
Fathers
John 6:31
Our forefathers ate the [supernatural] 'manna' in the desert, as it is written [Neh. 9:15], 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"
And are
1 Corinthians 10:3
And they all ate the same spiritual food [i.e., the supernatural manna. See Ex. 16:4-5],
Hebrews 3:17
And who was God angry with for forty years? Was it not with those people who sinned, whose bodies fell [dead] in the desert?
Jude 1:5
But, I want to remind you, [even] though you already know the stories about how the Lord delivered His people from Egyptian [bondage], and then [later] destroyed those who did not believe [in Him].
General references
John 6:58
This is the bread that came down from heaven [i.e., Jesus is referring to Himself]. [It is] not like [the bread] our forefathers ate and [then] died. The person who eats this bread will live forever."