Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 21:5

5 And the people spake against God , and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water, and our soul loatheth this light bread .

Against Christ, their chief conductor, whom they tempted. 1 Cor. 10. 9.

(i. e.) Of small substance and vertue. Thus contemptuously do they speak of Manna, whereas it appears it yielded excellent nourishment, because in the strength of it they were able to go so many and such tedious journies.

Marginal references: chap. 11. 6.