John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 11:24

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Moses went out, etc.] Either out of his own tent, about which the people assembled, complaining and weeping, (<041110>Numbers 11:10); or rather, as Aben Ezra, out of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the sanctuary where he had been conversing with God, about the affairs complained of both by the people and by himself; so the Targum of Jonathan says, he went out of the tabernacle, the house of the Shechinah or divine Majesty: and told the people of the words of the Lord; what he had ordered him to do for his ease in the government of them, and how he had promised to give them flesh on the morrow: and gathered the seventy men of the elders of Israel; sent for them by name, and ordered them to assemble at such a time and place; and though two of them came not, after mentioned, (<041126>Numbers 11:26), yet the full number of seventy is given: and set them round about the tabernacle; they seem to be set not promiscuously in a body together, but distinctly, one by another, in a circular form; that they might be seen, observed, and taken notice of by the people that came about the tabernacle, who they were, what were done to them, and what befell them.

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