Numbers 11:25

The LORD puts his Spirit on the elders and they prophesy once. God visibly confirms their empowerment for shared leadership.

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• Num 11:17I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone.
• Joel 2:28–29“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.
• 1 Sam 10:10When they came there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came mightily on him, and he prophesied among them.
• Num 12:5Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.
• 2 Pet 1:21For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
• 1 Cor 14:1–3Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
• 1 Sam 19:20–24Saul sent messengers to seize David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.
• 2 Kgs 2:15When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho over against him saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
• Acts 2:17–18‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.
• 1 Sam 10:5–6“After that you will come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is; and it will happen, when you have come there to the city, that you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a lute, a tambourine, a pipe, and a harp before them; and they will be prophesying.
• Acts 21:9–11Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.
• Ps 99:7He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, the statute that he gave them.
• Exod 40:38For the cloud of Yahweh was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
• 1 Cor 11:4–5Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.
• Jer 36:5–6Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted. I can’t go into Yahweh’s house.
• Jas 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
• Acts 11:28One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.
• 1 Cor 14:32The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,
• Exod 34:5Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed Yahweh’s name.
• Luke 9:34–35While he said these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered into the cloud.

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