They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.” So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, “At evening you shall know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and in the morning you shall see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your grumbling against the LORD. For what are we, that you grumble against us?” And Moses said, “When the LORD gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the LORD has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him—what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the LORD.”
Comment: The mass of the people hadn’t learnt the lesson about ‘grumbling’ taught yesterday. But here the lesson is strengthened. You may remember that King David when, in his lust he had taken another man’s wife, he had her husband murdered to hide the resulting pregnancy from others’ eyes, when he later prayed (Ps 51) he asked God to forgive him because his sins which were huge, were against God. We would see them as against the woman, the husband, his army commander – and they were – but primarily as God’s man they were against God! So Moses when they grumbled against Moses and Aaron they were really complaining/grumbling against God. Graciously, when asked, God provided for them, and told them how to handle it.
Prayer: Than You Father for giving us Jesus who is the ‘Bread of Life’ for us as we trust Him!
As I read it! 