Wilt thou put out the eyes of these men?— The original is strong, תנקר tenakker; wilt thou bore out,—"Dost thou think so absolutely to blind us, that none of us shall discern thy deceit and ambition? Or thinkest thou that we will suffer thee to lead us about, like blind men, whither thou pleasest, under pretence of bringing us into a rich and fertile country—from one of which sort, indeed, thou hast brought us, miserably to perish in a desolate wilderness?"—Houbigant says, that the eyes of these men refer to the two hundred and fifty rebellious. See Numbers 16:2.
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Numbers 16:14
14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.