Torrey’s New Topical Textbook

Miraculously given to Israel for food in the wilderness  Ex 16:4,15; Ne 9:15.

Called

God’s manna.  Ne 9:20.

Bread of heaven.  Ps 105:40.

Bread from heaven.  Ex 16:4; Joh 6:31.

Corn of heaven.  Ps 78:24.

Angel’s food.  Ps 78:25.

Spiritual meat.  1Co 10:3.

Previously unknown  De 8:3,16.

Described as

Like coriander seed.  Ex 16:31; Nu 11:7.

White.  Ex 16:31.

Like in colour to bdellium.  Nu 11:7.

Like in taste to wafers made with honey.  Ex 16:31.

Like in taste to oil.  Nu 11:18.

Like hoar frost.  Ex 16:14.

Fell after the evening dew  Nu 11:9.

None fell on the Sabbath day  Ex 16:26,27.

Gathered every morning  Ex 16:21.

An omer of, gathered for each person  Ex 16:16.

Two portions of, gathered the sixth day on account of the Sabbath  Ex 16:5,22-26.

He that gathered much or little had sufficient and nothing over  Ex 16:18.

Melted away by the sun  Ex 16:21.

Given

When Israel murmured for bread.  Ex 16:2,3.

In answer to prayer.  Ps 105:40.

Through Moses.  Joh 6:31,32.

To exhibit God’s glory.  Ex 16:7.

As a sign of Moses’s divine mission.  Joh 6:30,31.

For forty years.  Ne 9:21.

As a test of obedience.  Ex 16:4.

To teach that man does not live by bread only.  De 8:3; Mt 4:4.

To humble and prove Israel.  De 8:16.

Kept longer than a day (except on the Sabbath) became corrupt  Ex 16:19,20.

The Israelites

At first covetous of.  Ex 16:17.

Ground, made into cakes and baked in pans.  Nu 11:8.

Counted inferior to food of Egypt.  Nu 11:4-6.

Loathed.  Nu 21:5.

Punished for despising.  Nu 11:10-20.

Punished for loathing.  Nu 21:6.

Ceased when Israel entered Canaan  Ex 16:35; Jos 5:12.

Illustrative of

Christ.  Joh 6:32-35.

Blessedness given to saints.  Re 2:17.

A golden pot of, laid up in the holiest for a memorial  Ex 16:32-34; Heb 9:4.

Divinely instituted  Ge 2:24.

A covenant relationship  Mal 2:4.

Designed for

The happiness of man.  Ge 2:18.

Increasing the human population.  Ge 1:28; 9:1.

Raising up godly seed.  Mal 2:15.

Preventing fornication.  1Co 7:2.

The expectation of the promised seed of the woman an incentive to, in the early age  Ge 3:15; 4:1.

Lawful in all  1Co 7:2,28; 1Ti 5:14.

Honourable for all  Heb 13:4.

Should be only in the Lord  1Co 7:39.

Expressed by

Joining together.  Mt 19:6.

Making affinity.  1Ki 3:1.

Taking to wife.  Ex 2:1.

Giving daughters to sons, and sons to daughters.  De 7:3; Ezr 9:12.

Indissoluble during the joint lives of the parties  Mt 19:6; Ro 7:2,3; 1Co 7:39.

Early introduction of polygamy  Ge 4:19.

Contracted in patriarchal age with near relations  Ge 20:12; 24:24; 28:2.

Often contracted by parents for children  Ge 24:49-51; 34:6,8.

Should be with consent of parents  Ge 28:8; Jdj 14:2,3.

Consent of the parties necessary to  Ge 24:57,58; 1Sa 18:20; 25:41.

Parents might refuse to give their children in  Ex 22:17; De 7:3.

The Jews

Forbidden to contract, with their near relations.  Le 18:6.

Forbidden to contract with idolaters.  De 7:3,4; Jos 23:12; Ezr 9:11,12.

Often contracted with foreigners.  1Ki 11:1; Ne 13:23.

Sometimes guilty of polygamy.  1Ki 11:1,3.

Careful in contracting for their children.  Ge 24:2,3; 28:1,2.

Betrothed themselves some time before.  De 20:7; Jdj 14:5,7,8; Mt 1:18.

Contracted when young.  Pr 2:17; Joe 1:8.

Often contracted, in their own tribe.  Ex 2:1; Nu 36:6-13; Lu 1:5,27.

Obliged to contract with a brother’s wife who died without seed.  De 25:5; Mt 22:24.

Considered being debarred from, a reproach.  Isa 4:1.

Considered being debarred from, a cause of grief.  Jdj 11:38.

Often punished by being debarred from.  Jer 7:34; 16:9; 25:10.

Were allowed divorce from, because of hardness of their hearts.  De 24:1; Mt 19:7,8.

Exempted from going to war immediately after.  De 20:7.

Priest not to contract, with divorced or improper persons  Le 21:7.

The high priest not to contract, with a widow or a divorced or profane person  Le 21:14.

Contracted at the gate and before witnesses  Ru 4:1,10,11.

Modes of demanding women in  Ge 24:3,4; 34:6,8; 1Sa 25:39,40.

Elder daughters usually given in, before the younger  Ge 29:26.

A dowry given to the woman’s parents before  Ge 29:18; 34:12; 1Sa 18:27,28; Ho 3:2.

Celebrated

With great rejoicing.  Jer 33:11; Joh 3:29.

With feasting.  Ge 29:22; Jdj 14:10; Mt 22:2,3; Joh 2:1-10.

For seven days.  Jdj 14:12.

A benediction pronounced after  Ge 24:60; Ru 4:11,12.

The bride

Received presents before.  Ge 24:53.

Given a handmaid at.  Ge 24:59; 29:24,29.

Adorned with jewels for.  Isa 49:18; 61:10.

Gorgeously apparelled.  Ps 45:13,14.

Attended by bridesmaids.  Ps 45:9.

Stood on the right of bridegroom.  Ps 45:9.

Called to forget her father’s house.  Ps 45:10.

The bridegroom

Adorned with ornaments.  Isa 61:10.

Attended by many friends.  Jdj 14:11; Joh 3:29.

Presented with gifts.  Ps 45:12.

Crowned with garlands.  Song 3:11.

Rejoiced over the bride.  Isa 62:5.

Returned with the bride to his house at night.  Mt 25:1-6.

Garments provided for guests at  Mt 22:12.

Infidelity of those contracted in, punished as if married  De 22:23,24; Mt 1:19.

Illustrative of

God’s union with the Jewish nation.  Isa 54:5; Jer 3:14; Ho 2:19,20.

Christ’s union with his church.  Eph 5:23,24,32.

Is death endured for the word of God, and testimony of Christ  Re 6:9; 20:4.

Saints

Forewarned of.  Mt 10:21; 24:9; Joh 16:2.

Should not fear.  Mt 10:28; Re 2:10.

Should be prepared for.  Mt 16:24,25; Ac 21:13.

Should resist sin to.  Heb 12:4.

Reward of  Re 2:10; 6:11.

Inflicted at the instigation of the devil  Re 2:10,13.

The Apostasy guilty of inflicting  Re 17:6; 18:24.

Of saints, shall be avenged  Lu 11:50,51; Re 18:20-24.

Exemplified

Abel.  Ge 4:8; 1Jo 3:12.

Ahimelech and his fellow priests.  1Sa 22:18,19.

Prophets and Saints of old.  1Ki 18:4; 19:10; Lu 11:50,51; Heb 11:37.

Urijah.  Jer 26:23.

John the Baptist.  Mr 6:27.

Peter.  Joh 21:18,19.

Stephen.  Ac 7:58.

Christians.  Ac 9:1; 22:4; 26:10.

James.  Ac 12:2.

Antipas.  Re 2:13.