Deuteronomy 1:13

I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

In Context

12(The Lord God of your fathers add to this number many thousands, and bless you as he hath spoken.)

14Let me have from among you wise and understanding men, and such whose conversation is approved among your tribes, that I may appoint them your rulers.

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Cross References

Exodus 18:21And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in whom there is truth, and that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers of thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens.

Acts 1:21Wherefore of these men who have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus came in and went out among us,

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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