Discovery BoxNumbers 14:25 
Context14:25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) 1 Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”
Numbers 32:15
Context32:15 For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon 2 them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.” 3
1 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.
2 tn The construction uses a verbal hendiadys with the verb “to add” serving to modify the main verb.
3 tn Heb “and you will destroy all this people.”
