Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

Bible References

Asked

Psalm 78:18

And in their hearts they put God to the test
By asking for food according to their [selfish] appetite.
Exodus 16:12
“I have heard the murmurings of the Israelites; speak to them, saying, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’”
Numbers 11:4
The rabble among them [who followed Israel from Egypt] had greedy desires [for familiar and delicious food], and the Israelites wept again and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

Satisfied

Exodus 16:14
When the layer of dew evaporated, on the surface of the wilderness there was a fine, flake-like thing, as fine as frost on the ground.
Numbers 11:7
The manna was like coriander seed, and it looked like bdellium.
Deuteronomy 8:3
He humbled you and allowed you to be hungry and fed you with manna, [a substance] which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, so that He might make you understand [by personal experience] that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.
Joshua 5:12
And the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten some of the produce of the land, so that the Israelites no longer had manna, but they ate some of the produce of the land of Canaan during that year.
Nehemiah 9:20

“You [also] gave Your good Spirit to instruct them,
You did not withhold Your manna from their mouth,
And You gave them water for their thirst.

Bread

Psalm 78:23

Yet He commanded the clouds from above
And opened the doors of heaven;
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.’”

General references

Numbers 11:9
When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna fell with it.
Deuteronomy 11:5
and what He did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place;
1 Corinthians 10:3
and all [of them] ate the same spiritual food;