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"And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab,
and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off
. . . Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of
the elders of Israel:"
Exodus 24:1, 9, KJV

"And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders
of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and
officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the
congregation, that they may stand there with thee . . . 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. 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."
Numbers 11:16, 24-25, KJV

"And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that
they do here. So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping
things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of
Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about. And there stood before
them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the
midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his
censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. Then said he
unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of
Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for
they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth."
Ezekiel 8:9-12, KJV

In the New Testament, we find the counterpart to these Seventy Elders
in such verses as the following; however, they were definitely not the
same God-fearing people who comprised the Sanhedrin under Moses'
leadership. If they had been, they wouldn't have killed Jesus Christ:

"But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a
cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to
his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever
shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire."
Matthew 5:22, KJV

"Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false
witness against Jesus, to put him to death;"
Matthew 26:59, KJV

"And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation
with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and
carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate."
Mark 15:1, KJV

"And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the
morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with
him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the
children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought."
Acts 5:21, KJV

"On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he
was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded
the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul
down, and set him before them."
Acts 22:30, KJV

Please note that the word "council" is derived from the Greek form of
the word "Sanhedrin", which is transliterated from Greek as
"sunedrion".


Verses compiled by the WordWeaver

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