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Psalms 78:24
Psalms 78:24 is verse 24 of Psalms chapter 78, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
Cited in John 6:31
King James Version
And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
World English Bible
He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.
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Psalms 78:22–26 · Berean Standard Bible
22 because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.
23 Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
24 He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
25 Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.
26 He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 68:9You sent abundant rain, O God; You refreshed Your weary inheritance.
Psalms 105:40They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
Exodus 16:4Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.
Exodus 16:14When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground.
Deuteronomy 8:3He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
Nehemiah 9:15In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land which You had sworn to give them.
Nehemiah 9:20You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.
John 6:31Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
John 6:32Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.
John 6:33For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
John 6:34“Sir,” they said, “give us this bread at all times.”
John 6:35Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.
John 6:36But as I stated, you have seen Me and still you do not believe.
John 6:37Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
John 6:38For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.
John 6:39And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.
John 6:40For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
John 6:41At this, the Jews began to grumble about Jesus because He had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
John 6:42They were asking, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then can He say, ‘I have come down from heaven?’”
John 6:43“Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus replied.
John 6:44“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:45It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—
John 6:46not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God; only He has seen the Father.
John 6:47Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.
John 6:48I am the bread of life.
John 6:49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
John 6:50This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.
John 6:51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”
John 6:52At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”
John 6:53So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.
John 6:54Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:55For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink.
John 6:56Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.
John 6:57Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
John 6:58This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”
John 6:59Jesus said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
John 6:60On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”
John 6:61Aware that His disciples were grumbling about this teaching, Jesus asked them, “Does this offend you?
John 6:62Then what will happen if you see the Son of Man ascend to where He was before?
John 6:63The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
John 6:64However, there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray Him.)
John 6:65Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.”
John 6:66From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him.
John 6:67So Jesus asked the Twelve, “Do you want to leave too?”
John 6:68Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
John 6:69We believe and know that You are the Holy One of God.”
John 6:70Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”
John 6:71He was speaking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. For although Judas was one of the Twelve, he was later to betray Jesus.
1 Corinthians 10:3They all ate the same spiritual food