A story is told that Benjamin Franklin was British Secret Service "Agent No. 72."
Hebrew 22 letters Greek 24 characters English 26 characters = 72
Seventy-two ornaments on the Menorah in the Tabernacle
Luke 10:1 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go
Seventy-two Jewish scholars were asked by the Greek King of Egypt Ptolemy II Philadelphus
The Kabbalah uses Seventy-two names of God to preform incantations.