Deuteronomy 1:12 · KJV
“How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?”
— Deuteronomy 1:12
(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!)
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. {Take: Heb. Give}
Deuteronomy 1 — Context
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!)
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}
14And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken {is} good {for us} to do.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 3:5
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency {is} of God;
Numbers 11:11-15
And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?
Psalms 89:19
Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon {one that is} mighty; I have exalted {one} chosen out of the people.
2 Corinthians 2:16
To the one {we are} the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who {is} sufficient for these things?
Deuteronomy 1:9
And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
1 Kings 3:7-9
And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I {am but} a little child: I know not {how} to go out or come in.
Exodus 18:13-16
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.