Numbers 11:10:
Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and the anger of the Lord was greatly aroused; Moses also was displeased.
Numbers 11:11:
So Moses said to the Lord, “Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all these people on me?”
Numbers 11:12:
Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, “Carry them in your bosom, as a guardian carries a nursing child,” to the land which You swore to their fathers?
Numbers 11:13-14:
Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep all over me, saying, “Give us meat, that we may eat.” I am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.
Numbers 11:15:
If You treat me like this, please kill me here and now – if I have found favor in Your sight – and do not let me see my wretchedness! (Amp- the failure of all my efforts)
Numbers 11:16:
So the Lord said to Moses: “Gather to Me 70 men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tabernacle of meeting, that they may stand there with you.”
Elders are given by God, but recognized by men.
The Elders were a support and strength to Moses by standing with him!
Numbers 11:17:
Then I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit that is upon you and will put the same upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone.
Judges 5:2:
When leaders lead in Israel, when the people willingly offer themselves, bless the Lord!
Numbers 11:24:
So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord, and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tabernacle.
Numbers 11:25:
Then the Lord came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy elders; and it happened, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied,(KJV-) and they did not cease.
Numbers 11:26-27:
But two men had remained in the camp: the name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them. Now they were among those listed, but who had not gone out to the tabernacle; yet they prophesied in the camp. And a young man ran and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
Numbers 11:28:
So Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, one of his choice men, answered and said, “Moses my lord, forbid them!”
Numbers 11:29-30:
Then Moses said to him, “Are you zealous for my sake? Oh, that ALL the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them!” And Moses returned to the camp, he and the elders of Israel.