Unto Dathan — Because they refused to come to him. The elders — The seventy rulers, whom he carried with him for the greater solemnity of the action, and to encourage them in their work, notwithstanding the obstinate and untractable nature of the people they were to govern.
Related Commentaries of Numbers 16:25
Numbers 16:25
25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.