SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:27
Y corrió un joven, y dio aviso a Moisés, y dijo: Eldad y Medad profetizan en el campamento.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Numbers 11:27
Verse 27. Eldad and Medad do prophesy, &c.] ELDAD, they said, and MEDAD there, Irregularly bold, By Moses uncommission'd, dare A separate meeting hold! And still whom none but heaven will own. Men whom the world decry, Men authorized by GOD alone, Presume to prophesy!
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 27. And there ran a young man , etc.] From the camp to the tabernacle, who had heard Eldad and Medad prophesy; which he thought was not right, being done without the knowledge and approbation of Moses, and in a private tent in the tabernacle, not among the elders, but the common people: who this young than was is not material to know; some of the Rabbins, as Jarchi says, affirm he was Gershon the son of Moses; whoever he was, no doubt, it was with a good design, consulting the glory of God and the honour of Moses, and therefore in great haste ran to him with the information: and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp ; who seem by this, to be persons well known, and of some note and figure; since not only the young man could call them by their names, but there needed no other description of them to Moses and those with him.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 24-30 - We have here the fulfilment of God's word to Moses, that he should have help in the government of Israel. He gave of his Spirit to the sevent elders. They discoursed to the people of the things of God, so that all who heard them might say, that God was with them of a truth. Two of the elders, Eldad and Medad, went not out unto the tabernacle, as the rest being sensible of their own weakness and unworthiness. But the Spiri of God found them in the camp, and there they exercised their gift of praying, preaching, and praising God; they spake as moved by the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of God is not confined to the tabernacle, but, lik the wind, blows where He listeth. And they that humble themselves shal be exalted; and those who are most fit for government, are leas ambitious of it. Joshua does not desire that they should be punished but only restrained for the future. This motion he made out of zeal for what he thought to be the unity of the church. He would have the silenced, lest they should occasion a schism, or should rival Moses but Moses was not afraid of any such effects from that Spirit which God had put upon them. Shall we reject those whom Christ has owned, or restrain any from doing good, because they are not in every thing of our mind? Moses wishes all the Lord's people were prophets, that he would put his Spirit upon all of them. Let the testimony of Moses be believed by those who desire to be in power; that government is burden. It is a burden of care and trouble to those who make conscienc of the duty of it; and to those who do not, it will prove a heavie burden in the day of account. Let the example of Moses be followed by those in power; let them not despise the advice and assistance of others, but desire it, and be thankful for it. If all the presen number of the Lord's people were rendered prophets, or ministers, by the Spirit of Christ, though not all agreed in outward matters, ther is work enough for all, in calling sinners to repentance, and faith in our Lord Jesus.
Original Hebrew
וירץ 7323 הנער 5288 ויגד 5046 למשׁה 4872 ויאמר 559 אלדד 419 ומידד 4312 מתנבאים 5012 במחנה׃ 4264
