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Numbers 11:27
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There ran a young man, and told Moshe, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
So a boy ran and told Moses and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."
A young man ran to Moses and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."
And a young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!"
So a young man ran and told Moses and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying [extolling the praises of God and declaring His will] in the camp."
So a young man ran and informed Moses, and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."
Then there ranne a yong man, and tolde Moses, and saide, Eldad and Medad doe prophesie in the hoste.
So a young man ran and told Moses and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."
A boy ran to Moses and told him about Eldad and Medad.
A young man ran and told Moshe, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!"
And there ran a youth, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.
A young man ran and told Moses. The man said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in camp."
And a young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.
A young man ran out to tell Moses what Eldad and Medad were doing.
A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
And a young man ran and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.
Then ran there a lad, & tolde Moses, & sayde: Eldad and Medad prophecie in the hoost.
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
And a young man went running to Moses and said, Eldad and Medad are acting as prophets in the tent-circle.
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said: 'Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.'
And there ranne a yong man, and tolde Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad doe prophesie in the campe.
And a young man ran and told Moses, and spoke, saying, Eldad and Modad prophesy in the camp.
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
A young man ran and reported to Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."
And whanne thei profesieden in the tentis, a child ran, and teld to Moises, and seide, Heldad and Medad profecien in the tentis.
and the young man runneth, and declareth to Moses, and saith, `Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.'
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
There ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
And a young man ran and told Moses, and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."
A young man ran and reported to Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!"
A young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are speaking the word of the Lord among the tents."
And a young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."
And there ran a young man, and told Moses and said, - Eldad and Medad, are prophesying in the camp!
And when they prophesied in the camp, there ran a young man, and told Moses, saying: Eldad and Medad prophesy in the camp.
And a young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."
A young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!"
So a young man ran and told Moses and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Reciprocal: Luke 9:49 - we saw
Cross-References
And all the whole earth was of one language and lyke speache.
And Sem liued after he begat Arphaxad fiue hundreth yeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.
Abram & Nachor toke them wiues: the name of Abrams wife [was] Sarai, and the name of Nachors wyfe, [was] Milcha, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcha, & the father of Iischa.
And Tarah toke Abram his sonne, and Lot the sonne of Haran his sonnes sonne, and Sarai his daughter in lawe his sonne Abrams wyfe, and they departed together from Ur of the Chaldees, that they myght go into the land of Chanaan: and they came vnto Haran, and dwelt there.
And so Abram departed, euen as the Lorde had spoken vnto hym, and Lot went with him: and Abram was seuentie and fiue yeres old when he departed out of Haran.
And they caryed awaye Lot also Abrams brothers sonne, & his goodes, (for he dwelled in Sodome) and departed.
And iust Lot, vexed with ye vncleane conuersatio of the wicked, deliuered he.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And there ran a young man,.... From the camp to the tabernacle, who had heard Eldad and Medad prophesy; which he thought was not right, being done without the knowledge and approbation of Moses, and in a private tent in the tabernacle, not among the elders, but the common people: who this young than was is not material to know; some of the Rabbins, as Jarchi says, affirm he was Gershon the son of Moses; whoever he was, no doubt, it was with a good design, consulting the glory of God and the honour of Moses, and therefore in great haste ran to him with the information:
and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp; who seem by this, to be persons well known, and of some note and figure; since not only the young man could call them by their names, but there needed no other description of them to Moses and those with him.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Occurrences at Kibroth-hattavah.
Numbers 11:4
The mixt multitude - The word in the original resembles our âriff-raff,â and denotes a mob of people scraped together. It refers here to the multitude of strangers (see Exodus 12:38) who had followed the Israelites from Egypt.
Numbers 11:5
The natural dainties of Egypt are set forth in this passage with the fullness and relish which bespeak personal experience.
Numbers 11:6-7
There is nothing at all ... - literally, âNought at all have we except that our eyes are unto this manna;â i. e. âNought else have we to expect beside this manna.â On the manna see Exodus 16:15 note; on bdellium see Genesis 2:12 note.
Numbers 11:10
The weeping was general; every family wept (compare Zechariah 12:12), and in a manner public and unconcealed.
Numbers 11:11-15
The complaint and remonstrance of Moses may be compared with that in 1 Kings 19:4 ff; Jonah 4:1-3, and contrasted with the language of Abraham (Genesis 18:23 ff) The meekness of Moses (compare Numbers 12:3) sank under vexation into despair. His language shows us how imperfect and prone to degeneracy are the best saints on earth.
Numbers 11:16
Seventy men of the elders of Israel - Seventy elders had also gone up with Moses to the Lord in the mount Exodus 24:1, Exodus 24:9. Seventy is accordingly the number of colleagues assigned to Moses to share his burden with him. To it, the Jews trace the origin of the Sanhedrim. Subsequent notices Numbers 16:25; Joshua 7:6; Joshua 8:10, Joshua 8:33; Joshua 9:11; Joshua 23:2; Joshua 24:1, Joshua 24:31 so connect the elders with the government of Israel as to point to the fact that the appointment now made was not a merely temporary one, though it would seem to have soon fallen into desuetude. We find no traces of it in the days of the Judges and the Kings.
Elders of the people, and officers over them - In English idiom, âelders and officers of the people.â Both elders and officers appear in Egypt (Exodus 3:16; Exodus 5:6 ff): the former had headed the nation in its efforts after freedom; the latter were the subordinate, though unwilling, agents of Egyptian tyranny. The two classes no doubt were working together; and from those who belonged to either, perhaps from those who were both eiders and officers, the council of Seventy was to be selected.
Numbers 11:17
I will take of the spirit which is upon thee - Render rather separate from the spirit, etc.; i. e. they shall have their portion in the same divine gift which thou hast.
Numbers 11:25
They prophesied - i. e. under the extraordinary impulse of the Holy Spirit they uttered forth the praises of God, or declared His will. Compare the marginal references.
And did not cease - Rather, and added not, i. e. they prophesied at this time only and not afterward. The sign was granted on the occasion of their appointment to accredit them in their office; it was not continued, because their proper function was to be that of governing not prophesying.
Numbers 11:26
Of them that were written - i. e. enrolled among the Seventy. The expression points to a regular appointment duly recorded and permanent.
Numbers 11:29
Enviest thou for my sake? - (Compare Mark 9:38 ff) The other members of the Seventy had been with Moses (compare Numbers 6:16, Numbers 6:24-25) when the gift of prophecy was bestowed on them. They received âof the spirit that was upon him,â and exercised their office visibly through and for him. Eldad and Medad prophesying in the camp seemed to Joshua to be acting independently, and so establishing a separate center of authority.
Numbers 11:31
The southeast wind, which blew from the neighboring Elanitic gulf of the Red Sea, brought the quails Exodus 16:13.
Two cubits high - Better, âtwo cubits above the face of the ground:â i. e. the quails, wearied with their long flight, flew about breast high, and were easily secured by the people, who spread them all abroad for themselves Numbers 11:32, in order to salt and dry them. The quail habitually flies with the wind, and low.
Numbers 11:32
Ten homers - About 55 bushels. Compare Leviticus 27:16.
Numbers 11:33
Ere it was chewed - Better, ere it was consumed. See Numbers 11:19-20. The surfeit in which the people indulged, as described in Numbers 11:32, disposed them to sickness. Godâs wrath, visiting the gluttonous through their gluttony, aggravated natural consequences into a supernatural visitation.
Numbers 11:34, Numbers 11:35
(Kibroth-hattaavah has been identified by Palmer with the extensive remains, graves, etc., at Erweis El Ebeirig, and Hazeroth âenclosuresâ with Ain Hadherah.)
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Numbers 11:27. Eldad and Medad do prophesy, &c. —
ELDAD, they said, and MEDAD there,
Irregularly bold,
By Moses uncommission'd, dare
A separate meeting hold!
And still whom none but heaven will own.
Men whom the world decry,
Men authorized by GOD alone,
Presume to prophesy!
