Deuteronomy 1:12

Alone, I do not have the strength to endure your arbitrations and judgments and disputes.

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How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

In Context

11May the Lord, the God of your fathers, add to this number many thousands more, and may he bless you, just as he has said.

13Offer, from among you, wise and experienced men, those whose conversation has been proven within your tribes, so that I may appoint them as your rulers.’

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Cross References

Exodus 18:13Then, the next day, Moses sat down in order to judge the people, and they stood beside Moses from morning, even until evening.

Deuteronomy 1:9And I said to you, at that time:

2 Corinthians 3:5It is not that we are adequate to think anything of ourselves, as if anything was from us. But our adequacy is from God.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 1:10-19

The Charge to Magistrates. ( b. c. 1451.) 9 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: 10 The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. 11 (The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!) 12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I… Read the whole commentary →

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