Numbers 11:28

And Joshua the son of Nun, who attended on Moses, the chosen one, said, My lord Moses, forbid them.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.

In Context

27And a young man ran and told Moses, and spoke, saying, Eldad and Medad prophesy in the camp.

29And Moses said to him, Art thou jealous on my account? and would that all the Lord’s people were prophets; whenever the Lord shall put his spirit upon them.

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Cross References

Exodus 17:9And Moses said to Joshua, Choose out for thyself mighty men, and go forth and set the army in array against Amalek tomorrow; and, behold, I shall stand on the top of the hill, and the rod of God will be in my hand.

Exodus 33:11And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as if one should speak to his friend; and he retired into the camp: but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, departed not forth from the tabernacle.

1 Chronicles 7:27Nun, his son Joshua, these were his sons.

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 →

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