Numbers 11

Numbers 11:16

Seventy men] These LXX. Elders, were appointed about a year after those many Rulers, and Judges, Exod. XVIII. They prophesied, and did not cease for the time; like whereunto was the case of Saul, 1 Sam. X. 10. God by this signe sealing so, and at first honouring their Vocation; though this extraordinary Gift ceased afterwards. These LXX. are added to assist Moses in the Government of this People in the Wildernesse. Yet it seemes from hence in afterages the Jewes took their rise of Constituting their Sanedrim or Synedrion of LXX. Elders for their Senate, and Supreme Court of Judicature in that Nation. Of LXX. see Ezek. VIII. 11. Exod. XXIV. 1, 9. Luke X. 1, 17.

Numbers 11:31

Quailes] Quailes given the second time, above a full year after those, Exod. XVI. 13. those being at their eighth Station, in the Wildernesse of Sin, and before they came to Sinai. These at the thirteenth Station, and after they left Mount Sinai in Kibroth Hattaavah: And continuing for a full moneth, Psal. LXXVIII. 26, —31.