And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
50. And the Lord spake unto Moses. The end and design of God in willing that these nations should be expelled, I have elsewhere explained, See ante, vol. 2: p. 397, etc. viz, lest they should adulterate the pure worship of God by their admixtures, should corrupt the people by their bad examples, and thus be pollutions to the Holy Land.
Kibroth-hattaavah means "the graves of lust." Between Hazeroth and Kadesh lie eighteen stations, yet only eleven days of travel passed; these belong to the thirty-eight years of wandering in the wilderness, not the first journey from Sinai.
AI summary
Commenting on Numbers 33:16-56
ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you--not, however, by expulsion, but extermination (Deu 7:1). and destroy all their pictures--obelisks for idolatrous worship (see on Lev 26:1). and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places--by metonymy for all their groves and altars, and materials of worship on the tops of hills.