a people as great numerous, and tall as the Anakim, but the Lord destroyed them before them. And they dispossessed them and settled in their place,Moses/God is definitely rubbing the Israelites' noses in their fathers misdeeds with this aside. He does this a couple times in the chapter, breaking the flow of the history each time. The only reason I can think of to do so is to remind the people of how their parents messed up.
Their parents wouldn't invade the Promised Land because they were afraid of the Anakim. However, here God is, reminding their kids about how He had promised land to others of Abraham's kin, and they had faced opposition just as powerful as that which the Israelites had balked at going against, but God had given them victory where the Israelites got nothing but exile for their doubt. I wonder, if God had decided to take them through these lands as a long way around to the Promised Land, would they have still rebelled?
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