Numbers 11:16

seventy.

Ge 46:27; Ex 4:29; 24:1,9; Eze 8:11; Lu 10:1,17

officers.

De 1:15; 16:18; 31:28

Numbers 11:24-26

gathered.

16,26

came down.

17; 12:5; Ex 34:5; 40:38; Ps 99:7; Lu 9:34,35

took.

17; 2Ki 2:15; Jas 1:17

gave it.From this place, Origen and Theodoret take occasion to compare Moses to a lamp, at which seventy others were lighted, without any diminution of its lustre.

they prophesied.By prophesying here we are to understand, their performing those civil and sacred functions for which they were qualified; exhorting the people to quiet and peaceable submission, and to trust and confidence in the providence of God.

1Sa 10:5,6,10; 19:20-24; Jer 36:5,6; Joe 2:28,29; Ac 2:17,18

Ac 11:28; 21:9-11; 1Co 11:4,5; 14:1-3,32; 2Pe 1:21

went not out.

Ex 3:11; 4:13,14; 1Sa 10:22; 20:26; Jer 1:6; 36:5
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