Deuteronomy 1:12

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How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?

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  • Num 11:11-15 : 11 And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you done me this evil? and why have I not grace in your eyes, that you have put on me the care of all this people? 12 Am I the father of all this people? have I given them birth, that you say to me, Take them in your arms, like a child at the breast, to the land which you gave by an oath to their fathers? 13 Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food. 14 I am not able by myself to take the weight of all this people, for it is more than my strength. 15 If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.
  • Deut 1:9 : 9 At that time I said to you, I am not able to undertake the care of you by myself;
  • 1 Kgs 3:7-9 : 7 And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in. 8 And your servant has round him the people of your selection, a people so great that they may not be numbered, and no account of them may be given. 9 Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?
  • Ps 89:19 : 19 Then your voice came to your holy one in a vision, saying, I have put the crown on a strong one, lifting up one taken from among the people.
  • 2 Cor 2:16 : 16 To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?
  • 2 Cor 3:5 : 5 Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit; but our power comes from God;
  • Exod 18:13-16 : 13 Now on the day after, Moses took his seat to give decisions for the people: and the people were waiting before Moses from morning till evening. 14 And when Moses' father-in-law saw all he was doing, he said, What is this you are doing for the people? why are you seated here by yourself, with all the people waiting before you from morning till evening? 15 And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God: 16 And if they have any question between themselves, they come to me, and I am judge between a man and his neighbour, and I give them the orders and laws of God.

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  • Deut 1:9-11
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    9 At that time I said to you, I am not able to undertake the care of you by myself;

    10 The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

    11 May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times greater in number than you are, and give you his blessing as he has said!

  • Deut 1:13-16
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    78%

    13 Take for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and respected among you, from your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

    14 And you made answer and said to me, It is good for us to do as you say.

    15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and respected, and made them rulers over you, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of fifties and captains of tens, and overseers of your tribes.

    16 And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.

  • Num 11:11-15
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    11 And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you done me this evil? and why have I not grace in your eyes, that you have put on me the care of all this people?

    12 Am I the father of all this people? have I given them birth, that you say to me, Take them in your arms, like a child at the breast, to the land which you gave by an oath to their fathers?

    13 Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.

    14 I am not able by myself to take the weight of all this people, for it is more than my strength.

    15 If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.

  • Exod 18:18-19
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    18 Your strength and that of the people will be completely used up: this work is more than you are able to do by yourself.

    19 Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him:

  • Deut 1:31
    72%

    31 And in the waste land, where you have seen how the Lord was supporting you, as a man does his son, in all your journeying till you came to this place.

  • 1 Kgs 12:9-11
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    9 And said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us?

    10 And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us; will you make it less? say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;

    11 If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.

  • Num 11:17
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    17 And I will come down and have talk with you there: and I will take some of the spirit which is on you and put it on them, and they will take part of the weight of the people off you, so that you do not have to take it by yourself.

  • 2 Chr 10:9-10
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    9 And he said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us?

    10 And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us, but will you make it less; say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;

  • Exod 18:22-23
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    22 And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put before you all important questions, but in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the weight off you.

    23 If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be able to go on without weariness, and all this people will go to their tents in peace.

  • Ps 81:6
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    6 I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.

  • Mic 6:3
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    3 O my people, what have I done to you? how have I been a weariness to you? give answer against me.

  • 1 Kgs 12:4
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    4 Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.

  • 1 Sam 12:7-8
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    7 Keep your places now, while I take up the argument with you before the Lord, and give you the story of the righteousness of the Lord, which he has made clear by his acts to you and to your fathers.

    8 When Jacob and his sons had come into Egypt, and were crushed by the Egyptians, the prayers of your fathers came up to the Lord, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who took your fathers out of Egypt, and he put them into this place.

  • Num 14:27
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    27 How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears.

  • Deut 29:11
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    11 And your little ones, your wives, and the men of other lands who are with you in your tents, down to the wood-cutter and the servant who gets water for you:

  • Deut 1:42
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    42 And the Lord said to me, Say to them, Do not go up to the attack; for I am not among you, and you will be overcome by those who are against you.

  • 2 Chr 10:4
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    4 Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.

  • Amos 2:13
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    13 See, I am crushing you down, as one is crushed under a cart full of grain.

  • Nah 1:12-13
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    12 This is what the Lord has said: The days of my cause against you are ended; they are cut off and past. Though I have sent trouble on you, you will no longer be troubled.

    13 And now I will let his yoke be broken off you, and your chains be parted.

  • Deut 1:22-23
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    22 And you came near to me, every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us to go through the land with care and give us an account of the way we are to go and the towns to which we will come.

    23 And what you said seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from among you, one from every tribe;

  • 2 Sam 15:33
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    33 David said to him, If you go on with me, you will be a trouble to me:

  • 2 Sam 15:20
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    20 It was only yesterday you came to us; why then am I to make you go up and down with us? for I have to go where I may; go back then, and take your countrymen with you, and may the Lord's mercy and good faith be with you.

  • 1 Kgs 3:8
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    8 And your servant has round him the people of your selection, a people so great that they may not be numbered, and no account of them may be given.

  • Isa 1:24
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    24 For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me;

  • Gen 30:30
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    30 For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?

  • 2 Chr 28:10-11
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    10 And now your purpose is to keep the children of Judah and Jerusalem as men-servants and women-servants under your yoke: but are there no sins against the Lord your God to be seen among yourselves?

    11 And now give ear to me, and send back the prisoners whom you have taken from your brothers: for the wrath of the Lord is burning against you.

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    10 Where is your king, that he may be your saviour? and all your rulers, that they may take up your cause? of whom you said, Give me a king and rulers.

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    12 And the Zidonians and Amalek and Midian crushing you down, and in answer to your cry did I not give you salvation from their hands?

  • Num 22:6
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    6 Come now, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on this people, for they are greater than I: and then I may be strong enough to overcome them and send them out of the land: for it is clear that good comes to him who has your blessing, but he on whom you put your curse is cursed.

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    16 Then the Lord said to him, Truly, I will be with you, and you will overcome the Midianites as if they were one man.

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    29 Then I said to you, Have no fear of them.