Numbers 16:13 “Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing wit…”

Numbers 16:13

Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?

World English Bible

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 also make yourself a prince over us?

American Standard Version

is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must needs make thyself also a prince over us?

Geneva Bible 1599

Is it a small thing that thou hast brought vs out of a lande that floweth with milke and honie, to kill vs in the wildernesse, except thou make thy selfe lord and ruler ouer vs also?

Darby Translation

Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that thou must make thyself altogether a ruler over us?

Young's Literal Translation

is it little that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to put us to death in a wilderness that thou also certainly makest thyself prince over us?

Bible in Basic English

Is it not enough that you have taken us from a land flowing with milk and honey, to put us to death in the waste land, but now you are desiring to make yourself a chief over us?

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Cross references

“out of a”

Numbers 11:5 Exodus 1:11 Exodus 1:22 Exodus 2:23

Numbers 11:5 · BSB

We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

Exodus 1:11 · BSB

So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

Exodus 1:22 · BSB

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”

Exodus 2:23 · BSB

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.

“to kill”

Exodus 16:3 Exodus 17:3 Numbers 20:3 Numbers 20:4

Exodus 16:3 · BSB

“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”

Exodus 17:3 · BSB

But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”

Numbers 20:3 · BSB

The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!

Numbers 20:4 · BSB

Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?

“thou make”

Acts 7:35 Exodus 2:14 Luke 19:14 Acts 7:25–27 Psalm 2:2 Psalm 2:3

Acts 7:35 · BSB

This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

Exodus 2:14 · BSB

But the man replied, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? ” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “This thing I have done has surely become known.”

Luke 19:14 · BSB

But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’

Acts 7:25–27 · BSB

He assumed his brothers would understand that God was using him to deliver them, but they did not.

Psalm 2:2 · BSB

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:

Psalm 2:3 · BSB

“Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”

Also

Numbers 14:2

Numbers 14:2 · BSB

All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come!

14Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”

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