A ruler - A comparison of the list with that of (Numbers 13:1; 13:5 and following) shows that they were not the princes of the t…

Every one a ruler among them.— Or, a prince among them, as in Numbers 1:16. A comparison of the names which follow with t…

Of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man. If all had been taken from one tribe, or from any single portion of the people, thei…

Send you men
Which is rather a permission than a command;

So Jarchi interprets it, "send men according to you…

A memorable and melancholy history is related in this and the following chapter, concerning Israel's turning back from the borders of Canaan and th…