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Numbers 11:24

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So Moses went out and relayed to the people the words of the LORD, and he gathered seventy of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Moses went out, and told the people the words of Jehovah: and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the Tent.

KJV

And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the Lord, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.

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This verse in Numbers 11

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Moses went out - Out of the tabernacle, into which he entered to receive God's answers from the mercy-seat. The seventy men - They are called seventy from the stated number, though two of them were lacking, as the Apostles are called the twelve, Matt. xxvi, 20, when one of that number was absent.

This site's exposition

Moses went out, and told the people the words

on Numbers 11:24-25

The spirit rests on the seventy and they prophesy, and the last clause of verse 25 is read two ways. The King James gives they prophesied, and did not cease, with the Targum and the older Jewish reading behind it; Keil and Delitzsch and the American Standard Version read the same Hebrew as they did so no more, one day of prophecy marking the men out for the office they were to hold. Clarke takes the prophesying here as the public work of exhorting and praying rather than of foretelling. The office they received stands under either reading, and the text settles neither.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), that they might there stand ready to receive the grace of God, in the place where he manifested himself, and that the people also might be witnesses of their solemn call. Note, Those that expect favour from God must humbly offer themselves and their service to him. God was not wanting to do his part.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Moses . . . gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, &c.--The tabernacle was chosen for the convocation, because, as it was there God manifested Himself, there His Spirit would be directly imparted--there the minds of the elders themselves would be inspired with reverential awe and their office invested with greater respect in the eyes of the people.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֵּצֵ֣אand he went out

    vaiyetze'H3318 →1067 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֗הMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • וַיְדַבֵּר֙and he spoke

    vaydaberH1696 →1141 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הָעָ֔םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • אֵ֖ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • דִּבְרֵ֣י[the] words of

    divreiH1697 →1440 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וַיֶּאֱסֹ֞ףand he gathered

    vaiyeesofH622 →200 times

  • שִׁבְעִ֥יםseventy

    shivimH7657 →91 times

  • אִישׁ֙man

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • מִזִּקְנֵ֣יfrom [the] elders of

    mizikneiH2205 →178 times

  • הָעָ֔םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • וַֽיַּעֲמֵ֥דand he stationed

    vaiyaamedH5975 →521 times

  • אֹתָ֖ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • סְבִיבֹ֥תaround

    sevivotH5439 →336 times

  • הָאֹֽהֶל׃the tent

    haohelH168 →345 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 11:16

    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them…

    it leads to

    • Exodus 24:1

      Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance.

    • Exodus 24:9

      Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,

    • Deuteronomy 16:18

      You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

    • Luke 10:1

      After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place He was about to visit.

    • Luke 10:17

      The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in Your name.”

  • Through

    Numbers 11:26

    Two men, however, had remained in the camp—one named Eldad and the other Medad—and the Spirit rested on them. They were among those listed, but they had not gone out to the tent, and…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 36:5

      Then Jeremiah commanded Baruch, “I am restricted; I cannot enter the house of the LORD;

    • 1 Samuel 20:26

      Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”

    • Exodus 3:11

      But Moses asked God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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