Deuteronomy 1:12

How do I bear your pressure, and your burden, and your strife by myself?

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11YHWH, God of your fathers, is adding to you, as you [are], one thousand times, and blesses you as He has spoken to you.

13Provide wise and understanding men for yourselves that are known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads;

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Cross References

Exodus 18:13And it comes to pass on the next day, that Moses sits to judge the people, and the people stand before Moses from the morning to the evening;

Deuteronomy 1:9And I speak to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you by myself;

Psalms 89:19Then You have spoken in vision, || To Your saint, indeed, || You say, I have placed help on a mighty one, || Exalted a chosen one out of the people,

2 Corinthians 3:5not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency [is] of 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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