SEV Biblia, Chapter 14:25
y aun al amalecita y al cananeo que habitan en el valle. Volveos mañana, y partíos al desierto, camino del mar Bermejo.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 25. And now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley , etc.] By the Canaanites are meant the Amorites, as Aben Ezra, which were a principal people of the land of Canaan, and which may be confirmed by ( Deuteronomy 1:19,20); this may seem contrary to what is said ( Numbers 13:29); where they are said to dwell in the mountain; but it may be reconciled by observing, that indeed their proper settled habitation was in the mountain; but now they went down from thence, and “sat” in the valley, as it may be rendered, in ambush, there lying in wait for the children of Israel, as in ( Psalm 10:8); and so Aben Ezra interprets it of their sitting there, to lie in wait for them: and now, though these people had so sadly provoked the Lord, yet such was his goodness to them, as to warn them of the design of their enemies, and of the danger by them, to provide for their safety, by giving them the following instruction: tomorrow turn you ; do not go forward, lest ye fall into their ambushment, but turn about, and go the contrary way; return in the way, or towards the parts from whence ye came: this they are bid to do tomorrow, but did not till some time after; for, contrary to the command of God, they went up the mount, where they were defeated by the Amalekites and Canaanites, after which they stayed in Kadesh some days, ( Deuteronomy 1:44-46); and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea ; or in the way towards it; and so they would be in the way to Egypt, where the people were desirous of returning again; but as they were always a rebellious and disobedient people, and acted contrary to God, so in this case; for when he bid them go back towards the Red sea again, then they were for going forward, and entering into the land of Canaan, ( Numbers 14:40); though when he bid them go up, and possess it, then they were for returning to Egypt, ( Numbers 14:4).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 20-35 - The Lord granted the prayer of Moses so far as not at once to destro the congregation. But disbelief of the promise forbids the benefit Those who despise the pleasant land shall be shut out of it. The promise of God should be fulfilled to their children. They wished to die in the wilderness; God made their sin their ruin, took them a their word, and their carcases fell in the wilderness. They were mad to groan under the burden of their own sin, which was too heavy for them to bear. Ye shall know my breach of promise, both the causes of it, that it is procured by your sin, for God never leaves any till the first leave him; and the consequences of it, that will produce you ruin. But your little ones, now under twenty years old, which ye, in your unbelief, said should be a prey, them will I bring in. God wil let them know that he can put a difference between the guilty and the innocent, and cut them off without touching their children. Thus God would not utterly take away his loving kindness.
Original Hebrew
והעמלקי 6003 והכנעני 3669 יושׁב 3427 בעמק 6010 מחר 4279 פנו 6437 וסעו 5265 לכם המדבר 4057 דרך 1870 ים 3220 סוף׃ 5488
