God’s considerateness for his overwrought servant was very tender. He knows our frame and remembers that we are dust. He does not chide, nor keep his anger forever. The remedy for the situation was provided in the appointment and enduement of the seventy elders, who became the germ of the Sanhedrin.

Moses’ depression led to unbelief. It seemed impossible to suppose that God could provide a table in the wilderness of such magnitude that in it the whole host could participate. Unbelief says, Can God? Faith answers, God can! See Ps. 78:19. - Child of God! God’s hand is not waxed short, that it cannot reach to you. Even if we believe not, he remains faithful. 2 Tim. 2:13. This equipment of the elders, v. 25, reminds us that we, too, need to receive the Holy Spirit, first for our sanctification in character, and then for our service and office. This is the special characteristic of Pentecost, Acts 2:14.

Numbers 11: 26-35. It is delightful to note the proof of the nobility of Moses’ nature in the answer he gave

to the tidings concerning Eldad and Medad. ‘They might not be of the designated group of elders, and might not have gone out to the ‘'abernacle, as in v. 16. They remind us of the unordained and simple disciples of Acts 11:19, etc. But there was no envy in Moses’ nature. He would have been only thankful if all had reached a degree of grace even beyond his own attainment.

The quails came. They flew in prodigious flocks, which darkened the air. Hxhausted by their long flight, they hovered within three feet of the ground, and so were easily captured. But the passionate haste in eating brought its own terrible nemesis to the Israelites. The story became engraved in the very name given to their halting place, Ps. 106:15. My soul, beware lest thou also be precipitated by thy passionate desires into that grave! Gal. 5:17.