Numbers 16:12

"And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, We will not come up: 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? Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up."

For whatever reason, Dathan and Abiram refused to respond to Moses' summons. One may surely suspect that they were more discerning than Korah and that they did not believe that he had won any victory. Surely, someone in Israel must have thought about what happened to Nadab and Abihu.

"Land flowing with milk and honey ..." (Numbers 16:13). This description, invariably, throughout the O.T., is a reference to the land of Canaan, but here, in the perverse hatred of the rebels, it is "used as a designation of Egypt."[9] For Israel, Egypt was slavery, genocide, the whips of the slave masters, and the utmost contempt of the whole Egyptian society. "A land flowing with milk and honey indeed!" HOW BLIND IS REBELLION AGAINST GOD!

"Wilt thou put out the eyes of these men ...?" (Numbers 16:13). Plaut identified this expression as a rather bold idiom with the meaning of, "fool us, hoodwink us, throw dust in our eyes, or blind us to the true facts."[10]