Psalms 78:24

And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
down	וַיַּמְטֵ֬ר vai.yam.Ter	H4305	to rain · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
manna	מָ֣ן man	H4478	literally a whatness (so to speak) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
eat	לֶאֱכֹ֑ל le.'e.Khol	H398	to eat (literally or figuratively) · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
given	נָ֣תַן Na.tan	H5414	to give · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
corn	וּדְגַן u.de.ga.no.Sha-	H1715	properly · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular construct
heaven	שָׁ֝מַ֗יִם Sha.Ma.yim	H8064	the sky (as aloft · noun, common masculine plural absolute

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Cross-references

Exodus 16:4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every da…
Psalms 105:40 The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
Deuteronomy 8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he mig…
John 6:31-71 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
Exodus 16:14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on…
Nehemiah 9:15 And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst the…
Nehemiah 9:20 Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
Psalms 68:9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:9-39

In these verses, I. The psalmist observes the late rebukes of Providence that the people of Israel had been under, which they had brought upon themselves by their dealing treacherously with God, Psa 78:9-11. The children of Ephraim, in which tribe Shiloh was, though they were well armed and shot with bows, yet turned back in the day of battle. This seems to refer to that shameful defeat which the Philistines gave them in Eli's time, when they took the ark prisoner, Sa1 4:10, Sa1 4:11. Of this the psalmist here begins to speak, and, after a long digression, returns to it again, Psa 78:61. Well might that event be thus fresh in mind in David's time, above forty years after, for the ark, which…

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John Gill on Psalms 78:24

And had rained down manna upon them to eat,.... So called, either from "manah", which signifies to prepare, appoint, and distribute, because this was food prepared of God for the Israelites without them, and was their provision, their appointed portion, and which was daily distributed to them in measure; or from the words , "man hu", what is it? which they used at first sight of the manna, they not knowing what it was, and hence called it "man"; or "manna"; this the Lord rained down from heaven, as he promised he would, that they might have food to eat; see Exodus 16:4. and had given them of the corn of heaven; bread corn springs out of the earth, but this was corn from heaven, very unusua…

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John Calvin on Psalms 78:23-25

Psalm 78:23-25 23. But he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, 24. And had rained down manna [328] upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. 25. Man had eaten the bread of the mighty: he had sent them meat to the full. 23. But he had commanded the clouds from above. It is a mistake to suppose that this miracle is related merely in the way of history. The prophet rather censures the Israelites the more severely from the consideration, that although fed to the full with manna, they ceased not to lust after the dainties which they knew God had denied them. It was the basest ingratitude to scorn and reject the heavenly food, which, so to speak,…

The Church Fathers

Let us turn back to the one who performed these miracles. He is himself the bread that came down from heaven; but bread that nourishes and never diminishes; bread that can be eaten but cannot be eaten up. This bread was also signified by manna, of which it was said, "He gave them the bread of heaven; people ate the bread of angels. Who can the bread of heaven be, but Christ? But for people to eat the bread of angels, the Lord of angels became a human being. Because if he had not become this, we would not have his flesh; if we did not have his flesh, we would not eat the bread of the altar.
— Augustine of Hippo, SERMON 130:2

This is where you are going; the same one is the way by which you are going. You do not go through one thing to something else; you do not come through something else to Christ. You come through Christ to Christ. How through Christ to Christ? Through Christ the man to Christ the God, through the Word made flesh to the Word which in the beginning was God with God, from that which people ate to that which every day the angels eat. For so it was written, "He gave them the bread of heaven; people ate the bread of the angels." Who is the bread of angels? "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." How did people eat the bread of angels? "And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us."
— Augustine of Hippo, TRACTATES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 13:4.2

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Dictionary and topics

Manna — Heb. man-hu, “What is that?” the name given by the Israelites to the food miraculously supplied to them during their wanderings in the wilderness (Ex. 16:15-35). The name is commonly taken as derived…
Manna · 5:12; — 5:12;

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Psalms 78:24

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:9-39

John Gill on Psalms 78:24

John Calvin on Psalms 78:23-25

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 78:24

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:9-39

John Gill on Psalms 78:24

John Calvin on Psalms 78:23-25

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 78:12-25

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 78:23-25

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 78:24