34 Bible Verses about Seventies

And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt were: two souls. So that all the souls of the house of Jacob which came into Egypt are seventy.

All the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

Thy fathers went down into Egypt with seventy souls, and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven in multitude.

And he said unto Moses, "Come unto the LORD: both thou and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel, and worship afar off."

Then went Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and the seventy elders of Israel up,

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.

And Moses went out and told the people the saying of the LORD, and gathered the seventy elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.

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.

Of the children of Bigvai, Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seventy men.

And Gideon had seventy sons of his body begotten, for he had many wives.

"Say, I pray you, in the ears of all the inhabiters of Shechem: whether is better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal which are seventy persons reign over you, either that one reign over you. And remember thereto, that I am your bones and your flesh."

And they went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew all his brethren, the sons of Jerubbaal, even seventy persons upon one stone. Notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal escaped, for he hid himself.

and ye are risen up against my father's house this day. And have slain his children, even seventy persons upon one stone and have made Abimelech - the son of his maidservant - king over the citizens of Shechem, because he is your brother.

and wished that the wickedness done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come on him, and laid the blood of them unto Abimelech their brother which slew them, and unto the other citizens of Shechem which aided him in the killing of his brethren.

And thus all the wickedness of Abimelech which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren,

Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria - unto the elders that were lords of Jezreel, and to them that nursed up Ahab's children - saying, "Now at the coming of these letters to you,

Then he wrote another letter to them saying, "If ye be mine and will obey my voice, then take the heads of your master's sons and come to me to Jezreel, by tomorrow this time." And the king's sons were seventy persons with the great men of the city which nourished them.

Then Adonibezek said, "Three score and ten kings having their thumbs and great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table wherefore as I have done so God hath done to me again." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

Of the children of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy men.

After these things, the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them, two and two, before him into every city, and place, whither he himself would come.

And the seventy returned again with joy saying, Lord, even the very devils are subdued to us through thy name.

And he called unto him two under captains, saying, "Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten. And spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night.

And when the letter came to them, they took the king's children and slew them in number, seventy persons, and put their heads in coffins and sent them to him to Jezreel.

And he had forty sons, and thirty nephews that rode on thirty ass colts.

And the number of the burnt offerings which the congregation brought in was seventy oxen and a hundred rams and two hundred lambs: and all for burnt offerings to the LORD.

And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water and seventy date trees, and they pitched there by the water.

And they removed from Marah and went unto Elim where were twelve fountains and seventy palm trees and they pitched there.

And the oxen were thirty six thousand, of which the LORD's part was seventy two.

The Levites: The children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, four and seventy.

The Levites: the children of Jeshua of Kadmiel, among the children of Hodevah, four and seventy.

Then sent Joseph and caused his father to be brought, and all his kin: three score and fifteen souls.

For Cain shall be avenged sevenfold: but Lamech seventy times sevenfold."

And he wrote him, of the lords and elders of Succoth: seventy seven men.

And the children of the captivity, which were come out of prison, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel: twelve bullocks for all Israel, six and ninety rams, seven and seventy lambs, twelve goats for a sin offering, all to the burnt offering of the LORD.