Deuteronomy 1:10
The Lord your God has multiplied you, and, behold, ye are to-day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
9And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I shall not be able by myself to bear you.
Cross References
Genesis 15:5And he brought him out and said to him, Look up now to heaven, and count the stars, if thou shalt be able to number them fully, and he said, + 15:5 Rom. 4. 18. Thus shall thy seed be.
Genesis 28:14And thy seed shall be as the sand of the earth; and it shall spread abroad to the sea, and the south, and the north, and to the east; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.
Exodus 32:13remembering Abraam and Isaac and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou hast sworn by thyself, and hast spoken to them, saying, I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of heaven for multitude, and all this land which thou spokest of to give to them, so that they shall possess it for ever.
Deuteronomy 10:22With seventy souls your fathers went down into Egypt; but the Lord thy God has made thee as the stars of heaven in multitude.
1 Chronicles 27:23But David took not their number from twenty years old and under: because the Lord said that he would multiply Israel as the stars of the heaven.
Ezekiel 16:7increase; I have made thee as the springing grass of the field. So thou didst increase and grow, and didst enter into great cities: thy breasts were set, and thy hair grew, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
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 →