The Princes digged] That is, caused it to be digged; the principall men of the Tribes, the chiefe Magistrate, and chiefe Minister smote the ground with their rods or staves, the ensignes of their dignitie, (as Moses did the rock) or with their journeying staves began to digge, and God caused thereupon a well to spring up as water issued out of the rock, Numbers 20:11. or they digged places to receive the water that came out of the rock, 2 King. 3. 16, 17. of the Law-giver] That is, of the Lord himselfe, so called, Isaiah 33:22. or Moses under God.