wherefore... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
evil. See App-44.
or of. Note Figure of speech Paradiastole, App-6, to emphasize the three items: figs, vines, and pomegranates. figs, vines,... pomegranates. See note on Numbers 13:23.
Related Commentaries of Numbers 20:5
Numbers 20:5
5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.