Ezekiel 8:11
8:11 Seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel 1 (with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them) were standing in front of them, each with a censer in his hand, and fragrant 2 vapors from a cloud of incense were swirling upward.
Ezekiel 38:16
38:16 You will advance 3 against my people Israel like a cloud covering the earth. In the latter days I will bring you against my land so that the nations may acknowledge me, when before their eyes I magnify myself 4 through you, O Gog.
1 sn Note the contrast between these seventy men who represented Israel and the seventy elders who ate the covenant meal before God, inaugurating the covenant relationship (Exod 24:1, 9).
2 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.
3 tn Heb “come up.”
4 tn Or “reveal my holiness.”