Numbers 11:29
And Moses said unto him, Art thou jealous for my sake? would that all Jehovah`s people were prophets, that Jehovah would put his Spirit upon them!
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30And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
Cross References
Joel 2:27And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am Jehovah your God, and there is none else; and my people shall never be put to shame.
Matthew 9:37Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few.
Acts 26:29And Paul [said], I would to God, that whether with little or with much, not thou only, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except these bonds.
1 Corinthians 3:21Wherefore let no one glory in men. For all things are yours;
1 Corinthians 14:5Now I would have you all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy: and greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.
Philippians 2:3[doing] nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;
Matthew Henry on Numbers 11:25-31
God Promises the People Flesh; The Case of Eldad and Medad. ( b. c. 1490.) 24 And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the Lord , and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle. 25 And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease. 26 But there remained two of the men in the… Read the whole commentary →