Numbers 16:14-15

14 "Indeed, you have not brought us ¹into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor have you given us an inheritance of ²fields and vineyards. Would you ³put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up!"

15 Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, "⁴Do not regard their offering! ⁵I have not taken a single donkey from them, nor have I done harm to any of them."

Numbers 16:14-15 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 16

This chapter gives an account of a sedition of Korah and others against Moses and Aaron, Nu 16:1-4, with whom Moses expostulates, and shows the unreasonableness of their clamour against Aaron, Nu 16:5-11; sends for Dathan and Abiram, who were in the confederacy, but refused to come, which greatly angered Moses, Nu 16:12-15; orders Korah and his company to appear before the Lord the next day, with Aaron, to have the controversy decided, Nu 16:16-18; when all the congregation gathered together would have been, consumed had it not been for the intercession of Moses and Aaron, Nu 16:19-22; and who, being separated from the rebels by the command of the Lord, some of the rebels were swallowed up in the earth, and others destroyed by fire from heaven, Nu 16:23-35; and their censers were made a covering for the altar, as a memorial of their sin, Nu 16:36-40; on which there was a new insurrection of the people, which brought a plague upon them, and destroyed 14,700 persons, and which was stopped at the intercession of Aaron, Nu 16:41-50.

Cross References

• 1. Numbers 13:27; Numbers 14:8
• 2. Exodus 22:5; Exodus 23:10, 11; Numbers 20:5
• 3. Judges 16:21; 1 Samuel 11:2
• 4. Genesis 4:4, 5
• 5. 1 Samuel 12:3

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "bore out"
• [b]. Lit "those"