Deuteronomy 1:12

Howe can I alone beare your combrance and your charge, and your strife?

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11(The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many moe as ye are, and blesse you, as he hath promised you)

13Bring you men of wisedome and of vnderstanding, and knowen among your tribes, and I will make them rulers ouer you:

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Cross References

Exodus 18:13Now on the morow, when Moses sate to iudge the people, the people stoode about Moses from morning vnto euen.

Deuteronomy 1:9And I spake vnto you the same time, saying, I am not able to beare you my selfe alone:

Psalms 89:19Thou spakest then in a vision vnto thine Holy one, and saydest, I haue layde helpe vpon one that is mightie: I haue exalted one chosen out of the people.

2 Corinthians 3:5Not that we are sufficient of our selues, to thinke any thing, as of our selues: but our sufficiencie 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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