34 Bible Verses about Seventies

Joseph had two sons who were born in Egypt. There were a total of seventy people in Jacob's household who went to Egypt.

Joseph was already in Egypt. The total number of Jacob's descendants was seventy.

Your fathers traveled to Egypt, seventy persons in all. Now Jehovah your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the universe (physical heavens).

Jehovah said to Moses: You and Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of Israel's elders come up the mountain to me and worship at a distance.

Moses and Aaron, together with Nadab and Abihu and the seventy leaders, went up the mountain.

Jehovah replied to Moses: Assemble seventy respected men who are recognized as elders of the people. Bring them to me at the tent of my presence, and tell them to stand there beside you.

Thus Moses went out and told the people what Jehovah said. He assembled seventy of the leaders and placed them around the tent.

Standing in front of them were seventy elders of the house of Israel. Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood among them. Each man had his censer in his hand and the fragrance of the cloud of incense was rising.

And of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.

He had many wives and seventy sons.

Ask the men of Shechem: 'Which is better for you. To have all seventy of Gideon's sons govern you or to have just one man? Remember that Abimelech is your own flesh and blood.'

He went to his father's house at Ophrah. There on top of a single stone he killed his seventy brothers, Gideon's sons. Gideon's youngest son Jotham hid and therefore was not killed.

Today you turned against my father's family. You killed his sons, seventy men on a single stone. And this because Abimelech, his son by his servant woman, is your relative, you have made him king of Shechem.

That the cruelty done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might be avenged on their brother Abimelech. For he killed them and the men of Shechem helped him kill his brother.

Thus God paid Abimelech back for the crime that he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.

Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu sent letters to Samaria, to the rulers of the town, and to the elders, and to those who took care of the sons of Ahab. The letter stated:

Jehu wrote them another letter: If you are with me and are ready to follow my orders, bring the heads of King Ahab's descendants to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow. The seventy descendants of King Ahab were under the care and were being brought up by the leading citizens of Samaria.

And Adoni-bezek said: Seventy kings with their big toes cut off have gathered food scrapes under my table. God has repaid me for what I have done. So they brought him to Jerusalem where he died.

And of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah; the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.

The Lord appointed seventy disciples and sent them in groups of two into every city and place where he was about to go.

The seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name.

He called two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea. Also prepare seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, at the third hour of the night.

As soon as Jehu's letter arrived, the leaders of Samaria killed all seventy of Ahab's descendants and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.

He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. Abdon led Israel for eight years,

They brought seventy bulls, one hundred sheep, and two hundred lambs as burnt offerings for Jehovah.

Then they went to Elim. There were twelve springs and seventy palm trees. They camped there by the water.

From there they went to Elim, where they camped. There were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees there.

There were thirty-six thousand cattle, from which Jehovah's levy was seventy-two.

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

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

Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his family, seventy-five people.

If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.

He captured a young man from Succoth and questioned him. He described the princes of Succoth, and the elders and even seventy-seven men.

Those who had been prisoners, who had come back from a strange land, made burned offerings to the God of Israel, twelve oxen for all Israel, ninety-six male sheep, seventy-seven lambs, twelve he-goats for a sin-offering: all this was a burned offering to Jehovah.