Medad
Exodus & Wilderness
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Medad, along with Eldad, prophesied in the Israelite camp, though they had not gone to the tent of meeting.
Medad was one of the seventy elders appointed by Moses to help bear the burden of leadership over Israel in the wilderness (Numbers 11:26–29). Though he and Eldad had not gone to the tent of meeting with the other elders, they prophesied in the camp when the Spirit rested on them—causing the young man to run and report this to Moses. Joshua urged Moses to stop them, but Moses responded with the wish that all the LORD's people were prophets, expressing the vision of universal prophecy later echoed in Joel 2:28.