Deuteronomy 1:12
How can I alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 18:13And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning to the evening.
Deuteronomy 1:9And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
Psalms 89:19Then thou didst speak in vision to thy holy one, and say, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
2 Corinthians 3:5Not that we are sufficient by ourselves to think any thing as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from 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 →