Deuteronomy 1:11 · KJV
“(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!)”
— Deuteronomy 1:11
The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye {are} this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Deuteronomy 1 — Context
And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
10The 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!)
12How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
13Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. {Take: Heb. Give}
Cross References
Psalms 115:14
The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
Genesis 22:17
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which {is} upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; {shore: Heb. lip}
Numbers 6:27
And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.
Genesis 26:4
And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
Genesis 49:25
{Even} by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
2 Samuel 24:3
And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see {it}: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
Exodus 32:13
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit {it} for ever.