Numbers 16:13 - Exposition

Is it a small thing. Rather, "is it too little," as in Numbers 16:9 . A land that floweth with milk and honey. A description applying by right to the land of promise ( Exodus 3:8 ; Numbers 13:27 ), which they in their studied insolence applied to Egypt. Except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us. Literally, "that ( כִּי ) thou altogether lord it over us." The expression is strengthened in the original by the reduplication of the verb in the inf. abs; גַּם־הִשְׂתְּרֶר