Numbers 16:13 BSB — MannaFest

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?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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?

KJV

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?

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הַמְעַ֗ט	ham.'At	¿ [is it] small	H4592 →
כִּ֤י	ki	that	H3588 →
הֶֽעֱלִיתָ֙נוּ֙	he.'e.li.Ta.nu	you have brought up us	H5927 →
מֵאֶ֨רֶץ	me.'E.retz	from a land	H776 →
זָבַ֤ת	za.Vat	flowing of	H2100 →
חָלָב֙	cha.Lav	milk	H2461 →
וּדְבַ֔שׁ	u.de.Vash	and honey	H1706 →
לַהֲמִיתֵ֖נוּ	la.ha.mi.Te.nu	to kill us	H4191 →
בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר	ba.mid.Bar	in the wilderness	H4057 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	that	H3588 →
תִשְׂתָּרֵ֥ר	tis.ta.Rer	you will make yourself ruler	H8323 →
עָלֵ֖ינוּ	'a.Lei.nu	over us	H5921 →
גַּם־	gam-	also	H1571 →
הִשְׂתָּרֵֽר׃	his.ta.Rer	really <make yourself ruler>	H8323 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 2:14
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…
leads to
- Luke 12:14
  But Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed Me judge or executor between you?”
- Luke 19:14
  But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 21:23
  When Jesus returned to the temple courts and began to teach, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to Him. “By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And…
Through
Luke 19:14
But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
leads to
- 1 Samuel 8:7
  And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as…
- Acts 7:51–52
  You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
- Acts 3:14–15
  You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.
Through
Exodus 16:3
“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…
leads to
- Numbers 11:4–5
  Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
Through
Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
leads to
- Exodus 16:3
  “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…