Numbers 20:5

And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt ,.... They represent that affair in such a light, as if they were forced out of Egypt by Moses and Aaron against their wills; or at least were overpersuaded by them to do what they had no inclination to, namely, to come out of Egypt; though they were in the utmost bondage and slavery, and their lives were made bitter by it, and they cried by reason of their oppression, and the hardships they endured; but this was all forgot. Aben Ezra says, it is a strange word which is here used, which shows the confusion they were in:

to bring us unto this evil place ; dry and barren, where there were neither food nor drink, as follows:

it is no place of seed ; or fit for sowing, as the Targum of Jonathan, any sort of seed, as wheat, barley, rye, rice, &c.;

or of figs, or vines, or pomegranates ; it is not a soil fit to plant such trees in, nor would they grow were they planted:

neither is there any water to drink ; for them and their cattle, and therefore must be a miserable place for so large a body of people to subsist in.