Thematic Bible: Seven, the number of perfection seventy


Thematic Bible



This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.


Yahweh said to Moses, "Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.




Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.


Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come.