Numbers 16:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Because they refused to come to him, he goes to them to their cost. The elders of Israel; the seventy rulers, whom he carried with him for the greater solemnity of the action, and for his own better vindication, because he lay under such calumnies, and to encourage them in their work, not-withstanding the obstinate and intractable nature of the people they were to govern.