EXODUS 16:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the Lord: for he hath heard your murmurings.”
Then Moses told Aaron: say to the whole Israelite community, come before the Lord, for he has heard your grumbling. The summons to come before the Lord in response to the grumbling is liturgically significant. Rather than a private provision or a quiet miracle, God chooses to appear before the assembled community. The grumbling community is gathered into the presence of the one they have been grumbling against. Hebrews 4:16 says let us therefore approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need — the approach to the throne that Hebrews commends is modeled in Exodus 16:9, where the needy, grumbling community is summoned into the presence of the God who provides.
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