Thought from Today’s Old Testament Passage: 11:4-15—They were
sick of the good provision God had made for them, v. 6. It was
bread from heaven, angels’ food. To show how unreasonable their
complaint was, it is here described, v. 7-9. It was good for
food, and pleasant to the eye, every grain like an orient pearl;
it was wholesome food and nourishing; it was not to be called
dry bread, for it tasted like fresh oil; it was agreeable (the
Jews say, Wisd. 16:20) to every man’s palate, and tasted as he
would have it; and, though it was still the same, yet, by the
different ways of dressing it, it yielded them a grateful
variety; it cost them no money, nor care, for it fell in the
night, while they slept; and the labour of gathering it was not
worth speaking of; they lived upon free quarter, and yet could
talk of Egypt’s cheapness and the fish they ate there freely.
Nay, which was much more valuable than all this, the manna came
from the immediate power and bounty of God, not from common
providence, but from specia