Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;

Bible References

The ancients of the people

Jeremiah 26:17
The Elders also of the land stood up, and said thus unto all the people,
Numbers 11:16
And the LORD said unto Moses, "Gather unto me seventy of the elders of Israel, which thou knowest that they are the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them unto the tabernacle of witness, and let them stand there with thee.
1 Chronicles 24:4
And there were more mighty heads found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar. And they divided them into sixteen heads of ancient households of the sons of Eleazar, and eight of the sons of Ithamar.
Ezekiel 8:11
There stood also before the images: Seventy lords of the counsel of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan. And every one of them had a censor in his hand, and out of the incense there went a smoke, as it had been a cloud.
Ezekiel 9:6
kill and destroy both old man and young, maidens, children and wives. But as for those, that have the mark upon them: see that ye touch them not. And begin at my Sanctuary." Then they began at the elders, which were in the temple,
Matthew 26:3
Then assembled together the chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people into the palace of the high priest, called Caiaphas:
Matthew 27:1
when the morning was come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people held a counsel against Jesus, to put him to death,
Acts 4:5
And it chanced on the morrow that their rulers, and elders, and scribes: