Numbers 16:13 (BSB)

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?

From Numbers 16. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 16:13

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 16:13: 13. Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us. It is not enough for these wicked men, when they are invited to discussion, contumaciously to repudiate the superiority of Moses, unless they also assail him with counter-accusations. The crime they allege against him must be observed.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 16:12-22: Here is, I. The insolence of Dathan and Abiram, and their treasonable remonstrance. Moses had heard what Korah had to say, and had answered it; now he summons Dathan and Abiram to bring in their complaints (Num 16:12); but they would not obey his summons, either because they could not for shame say that to his face which they were resolved to say, and then...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 16:13: Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey?.... Meaning Egypt, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it; which, though a plentiful country, never had, nor deserved to have this epithet given it, which is peculiar to the land of Canaan, and is here given, in opposition to the description of that land...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 16:13: [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? (f) Thus they spoke contemptuously, preferring Egypt to Canaan.