Numbers 14:25

14:25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”

Numbers 20:4

20:4 Why have you brought up the Lord’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

sn The judgment on Israel is that they turn back to the desert and not attack the tribes in the land. So a parenthetical clause is inserted to state who was living there. They would surely block the entrance to the land from the south – unless God removed them. And he is not going to do that for Israel.

tn Heb “and why….” The conjunction seems to be recording another thing that the people said in their complaint against Moses.

tn The clause uses the infinitive construct with the lamed (ל) preposition. The clause would be a result clause in this sentence: “Why have you brought us here…with the result that we will all die?”