Numbers 11:16

11:16

seventy <07657> [seventy.]

officials <07860> [officers.]

Numbers 11:24-25

11:24

gathered <0622> [gathered.]

11:25

came down <03381> [came down.]

took <0680> [took.]

put ..... seventy <05414 07657> [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.

prophesied <05012> [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.