With perverse contempt for the promises, Dathan and Abiram designate Egypt by the terms appropriated elsewhere to the land of Canaan.

A land that floweth with milk and honey. — The description of the land of promise is here applied perversely and ironical…

Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us. It is not enough for these wicked men, when they are invited to discussion, stubbornly to r…

[Is it] a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a
land that floweth with milk and honey