16And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
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And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.
Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-23)We have here God’s gracious answer to both the foregoing complaints, wherein his goodness takes occasion from man’s badness to appear so much the more illustrious. I. Provision is made for the redress of the grievances Moses complains of. If he find the weight of government lie too heavy upon him, though he was a little too passionate in his remonstrance, yet he shall be eased, not by being discar…
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