For if you will not follow him, he will leave the people in the wilderness, end you shall be the cause of the destruction of all.

when ye turn back from after Him, then He hath added yet to leave him in the wilderness, and ye have done corruptly to all this people.'

For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

But if you are not willing to follow him, he will leave the people behind in the wilderness, and you will have been the cause of all our deaths."

Si aversi fueritis ut non eatis post eum, tum addet adhuc deserere illum ipsum in deserto, et perdetis universum populum hunc.

For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and (d) ye shall destroy all this people.
(d) By your occasion.

For if ye turn away from after him,.... From following him in the way of his commandments, from attending his word, worship, and ordinances, and from walking after him, who went before them in a pillar of cloud and fire, as it is suggested they would, should they stop short here and not go over Jordan into the land of Canaan:
he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; as he did at the time of the affair of the spies, when they were ordered to turn and get into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, and where they had been ever since unto this time, Numbers 14:25,
and ye shall destroy all this people; be the cause of their destruction, if the Lord should in such a manner resent this step of theirs, as to order them back into the wilderness again, though they were now as they were before, on the border of the land of Canaan.

"If ye draw back behind Him," i.e., resist the fulfilment of the will of God, to bring Israel to Canaan, "He will leave it (Israel) still longer in the desert, and ye prepare destruction for all this nation."

All this people - Who being moved by your counsel and example, will refuse to go over Jordan.