Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 1:14
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken [is] good [for us] to do.
And ye answered me and said,…. As the speech of Moses to the people is not expressed before, so neither this answer of theirs to him:
the thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do; to look out for and present persons to him as before described; this they saw was for their own good and profit, as well as for the ease of Moses, and therefore readily agreed to it.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
tribes. Hebrew. shebet, tribe, according to historical or political corporation; always this word in Deut. Where “tribe” is genealogical or geographical elsewhere it is matteh.