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is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must needs make yourself also a prince over us?
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Mocking God's Promise
Commentators unanimously highlight the rebels' perverse use of language. They call Egypt, the land of their slavery, 'a land flowing with milk and honey'—the very description God reserved for the Promised Land. This wasn't just a complaint; it was a deliberate and ironic mockery of God's promises, showing their deep contempt for His plan.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
With perverse contempt for the promises, Dathan and Abiram designate Egypt by the terms appropriated elsewhere to the land of Canaan.
19th Century
Anglican
A land that floweth with milk and honey. — The description of the land of promise is here applied perversely and ironical…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
[Is it] a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey
Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram to bring their complaints; but they would not obey. They bring very false charges against Moses. Those often fall …
