John Gill Commentary Numbers 20:4

"And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?" — Numbers 20:4 (ASV)

And why have you brought up the congregation of the Lord into
this wilderness
The wilderness of Zin, where by various marches and journeys, and through different stations, they were at length come:

that we and our cattle should die there ?
with thirst; they seem to represent it, as if this was the end, design, and intention of Moses and Aaron in bringing them thither; their language is much the same with their fathers on a like occasion; which shows the bad influence of example, and how careful parents should be of their words and actions, that their posterity be not harmed by them; see (Exodus 17:3) .