Are there before you.— Or, will be there before you. If the same persons are spoken of here as in Numbers 14:25, it will follow t…

For the Amalekites and the Canaanites [are] there before you ,
&c.] Having removed from the valley, ([Reference Numb…

Some of the Israelites were now earnest to go forward toward Canaan. But it came too late. If people would only be as earnest for heaven while thei…