Deuteronomy 1:12
(The Lord God of your fathers add to this number many thousands, and bless you as he hath spoken.)
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
In Context
13I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences.
Cross References
Exodus 18:13And the next day Moses sat, to judge the people, who stood by Moses from morning until night.
Deuteronomy 1:9Behold, said he, I have delivered it to you: go in and possess it, concerning which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give it to them, and to their seed after them.
Psalms 89:19For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one of Israel.
2 Corinthians 3:5Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency 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 →