Numbers 14:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Now the Amalekites— Instead of this awkward parenthesis, which strangely embarrasses the sense, the passage should be rendered as Houbigant and almost all the ancient versions render it, But now, because the Amalekites and Canaanites dwell in the valley, turn you to-morrow, and get you, &c. To-morrow here signifies hereafter, or at your next encampment; the same word is rendered in time to come, Exodus 13:14. The Lord now orders the people not to attempt to face those enemies who lay in wait on the other side of the mountain, and whom they had before shewn themselves afraid to face; and, as their defence was now removed, he advises them, as their wisest measure, to return into that wilderness where they were destined to wander forty years, Numbers 14:23.