Deuteronomy 1:12

How can I bear alone your labour, your business, and your adjudgments?

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times more than you are, and bless you, as He hath said to you!

13Provide (then) for yourselves prudent and sagacious men of your tribes, and I will appoint them to be chiefs over you.

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Cross References

Exodus 18:13And on the day after, Mosheh sat to judge the people, and the people stood about Mosheh from morn till evening;

Deuteronomy 1:9And I spake to you at that time, saying: I am not able to bear you myself alone.

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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