Deuteronomy 1:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

How can I alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your complaints?

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  • Num 11:11-15 : 11 And Moses said to the LORD, Why have You afflicted Your servant? and why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You lay the burden of all this people upon me? 12 Have I conceived all this people? Have I begotten them, that You should say to me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing father bears the nursing child, to the land which You swore to their fathers? 13 Where should I have meat to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us meat, that we may eat. 14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. 15 And if You deal thus with me, kill me, I pray You, out of hand, if I have found favor in Your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
  • Deut 1:9 : 9 And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
  • 1 Kgs 3:7-9 : 7 And now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in. 8 And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered or counted for multitude. 9 Therefore give your servant an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil: for who is able to judge this your great people?
  • Ps 89:19 : 19 Then you spoke in a vision to your holy one, and said, I have given help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people.
  • 2 Cor 2:16 : 16 To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is adequate for these things?
  • 2 Cor 3:5 : 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
  • Exod 18:13-16 : 13 And it happened on the next day that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood by Moses from morning until evening. 14 When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did for the people, he said, What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand by you from morning to evening? 15 And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to inquire of God. 16 When they have a dispute, they come to me, and I judge between one and another, and make them know the statutes of God and His laws.

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  • Deut 1:9-11
    3 verses
    82%

    9And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:

    10The LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are today as the stars of heaven in multitude.

    11(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you, as He has promised you!)

  • Deut 1:13-16
    4 verses
    78%

    13Choose wise, understanding, and knowledgeable men among your tribes, and I will make them leaders over you.

    14And you answered me and said, The thing which you have spoken is good for us to do.

    15So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and known men, and made them leaders over you, captains over thousands, captains over hundreds, captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.

    16And I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger who is with him.

  • Num 11:11-15
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    77%

    11And Moses said to the LORD, Why have You afflicted Your servant? and why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You lay the burden of all this people upon me?

    12Have I conceived all this people? Have I begotten them, that You should say to me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing father bears the nursing child, to the land which You swore to their fathers?

    13Where should I have meat to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us meat, that we may eat.

    14I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

    15And if You deal thus with me, kill me, I pray You, out of hand, if I have found favor in Your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

  • Exod 18:18-19
    2 verses
    75%

    18You will surely wear yourself out, and these people who are with you as well, for this thing is too heavy for you; you are not able to perform it by yourself.

    19Listen now to my voice; I will give you counsel, and God will be with you. Be for the people a representative to God, that you may bring the causes to God.

  • Deut 1:31
    72%

    31And in the wilderness, where you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.

  • 1 Kgs 12:9-11
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    9and he said to them, What counsel do you give that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which your father put upon us lighter?

    10And the young men that had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shall you speak to this people who spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter for us; thus shall you say to them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's waist.

    11And now, whereas my father loaded you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

  • Num 11:17
    71%

    17And I will come down and talk with you there, and I will take of the Spirit which is upon you, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you do not bear it yourself alone.

  • 2 Chr 10:9-10
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    71%

    9And he said to them, What advice do you give that we may return an answer to this people who have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that your father did put upon us?

    10And the young men that were brought up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shall you answer the people who spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it somewhat lighter for us; thus shall you say to them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.

  • Exod 18:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22And let them judge the people at all times. Then it will be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves; so it will be easier for you, for they will bear the burden with you.

    23If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all this people will go to their place in peace.

  • Ps 81:6
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    6I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the baskets.

  • Mic 6:3
    69%

    3O my people, what have I done to you? And how have I wearied you? Testify against Me.

  • 1 Kgs 12:4
    69%

    4Your father made our yoke grievous; therefore, make your father's grievous service and his heavy yoke which he put upon us lighter, and we will serve you.

  • 1 Sam 12:7-8
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    7Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.

    8When Jacob came into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.

  • Num 14:27
    68%

    27How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmurs against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

  • Deut 29:11
    68%

    11Your little ones, your wives, and your foreigners that are in your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water:

  • Deut 1:42
    68%

    42And the LORD said to me, Tell them, Do not go up or fight, because I am not among you; lest you be defeated before your enemies.

  • 2 Chr 10:4
    68%

    4Your father made our yoke grievous; now therefore, lighten the grievous servitude of your father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve you.

  • Amos 2:13
    68%

    13Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.

  • Nah 1:12-13
    2 verses
    68%

    12Thus says the LORD: Though they be at peace and likewise many, yet they shall be cut down when he passes through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

    13Now I will break his yoke from off you and will burst your bonds apart.

  • Deut 1:22-23
    2 verses
    68%

    22And every one of you came near to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and they shall search out the land for us, and bring us back word of the way we must go up and of the cities we will come to.

    23And the plan pleased me well: so I took twelve men of you, one man for each tribe:

  • 2 Sam 15:33
    68%

    33To whom David said, If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me:

  • 2 Sam 15:20
    68%

    20Whereas you came just yesterday, should I this day make you wander with us? seeing I go where I may, return, and take back your brethren: mercy and truth be with you.

  • 1 Kgs 3:8
    68%

    8And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered or counted for multitude.

  • Isa 1:24
    68%

    24Therefore says the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease myself of my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies:

  • Gen 30:30
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    30"For it was little which you had before I came, and it is now increased to a multitude, and the LORD has blessed you since my coming. Now, when shall I provide for my own house also?"

  • 2 Chr 28:10-11
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    68%

    10And now you purpose to keep the children of Judah and Jerusalem as bondmen and bondwomen for yourselves, but are there not with you sins against the LORD your God?

    11Now hear me therefore, and return the captives, whom you have taken captive of your brethren, for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.

  • Hos 13:10
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    10I will be your king: where is any other that may save you in all your cities? and your judges of whom you said, Give me a king and princes?

  • Judg 10:12
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    12The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites oppressed you; and you cried out to Me, and I delivered you from their hand.

  • Num 22:6
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    6Come now therefore, I pray you, curse this people for me, for they are too mighty for me: perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.

  • Judg 6:16
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    16And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall smite the Midianites as one man.

  • Judg 8:2
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    2And he said to them, What have I done now in comparison to you? Isn't the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

  • Deut 1:29
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    29Then I said to you, Do not be terrified, nor be afraid of them.