Elders of Israel

The heads of tribes, who, before the settlement of the Hebrew commonwealth, had a government and authority over their own families and the people. Moses and Aaron treated the elders as representatives of the nation, Exodus 3:16 4:29 12:21. When the law was given, God directed Moses to take the seventy elders, as well as Aaron, and Nadab and Abihu his sons, that they might be witnesses, Exodus 24:1,9. Ever afterwards we find this number of seventy, or rather, seventy-two, elders; six from each tribe.

In allusion to the Jewish elders, the ordinary governors and teachers of the Christian church are called elders, or presbyters, Acts 20:17,28 Titus 1:5,7 1 Peter 5:1 2 John 1:1.

4892. sunedrion -- a sitting together, hence a council, spec. the ...
... learned in the law, and a lay element of Elders" (Souter). 4892 () is also used
of the smaller councils ("lower courts") throughout Israel which consisted of ...
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The Call of Moses
... Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The Lord God of
your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, ...
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The True vision of God
... As an Old Testament believer he knew that Moses had once led the elders of Israel
up to the mount where 'they saw the God of Israel,' and that to many others ...
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Achan's Sin, Israel's Defeat
... water.6. And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before
the ark of the Lord until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put ...
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Was Moses "A Literary Fiction"?
... "Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take
you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.... ...
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'The Love of Thine Espousals'
... '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.2. And Moses ...
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Faithlessness and Defeat
... four thousand men.3. And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of
Israel said, Wherefore hath the Lord smitten us today before the Philistines? ...
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The Healing of the Lame Man at the Beautiful Gate
... Then Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and said to them, "Rulers of the people
and elders of Israel, if we are being examined this day for a good deed done ...
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One Fold and one Shepherd
... in Israel: and the Lord said to thee, Thou shalt feed My people Israel, and thou
shalt be a captain over Israel.3. So all the elders of Israel came to the king ...
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Peter and John Examined by the Council.
... "Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people,
and elders of Israel, if we this day be examined of the good deed done to the ...
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The First Blast of Tempest
... 8. Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people,
and elders of Israel, 9. If we this day be examined of the good deed done ...
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