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 ate the manna in the Desert, as it is written, 'He gave them bread out of Heaven to eat'."

And are

1 Corinthians 10:3
All ate the same spiritual food,
Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was God so greatly grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the Desert?
Jude 1:5
I desire to remind you--although the whole matter is already familiar to you--that the Lord saved a people out of the land of Egypt, but afterwards destroyed those who had no faith.

General references

John 6:58
This is the bread which came down out of Heaven; it is unlike that which your forefathers ate--for they ate and yet died. He who eats this bread shall live for ever."