Exodus 16:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured— The whole congregation seems to denote a more universal murmur, than the words the people imply in Exodus 16:24 of the last chapter. The vice grew contagious; and this strangely ungrateful people not only exaggerate, in a shameful manner, their present difficulties, but even revile their Deliverer, for the undeserved preservation which he had vouchsafed to them amid the destruction of the first-born in Egypt. Would to God we had died, &c. Exodus 16:3. Nothing can more strongly mark their abject and servile temper. Is this thy gratitude to GOD, O Israel! for his wonderful mercies towards thee? Thy goodness is as a morning-cloud, and as the early dew it passeth away. Hosea 6:4.