Deuteronomy 1:12

World English Bible (2000)

How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

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  • Num 11:11-15 : 11 Moses said to Yahweh, "Why have you treated with your servant so badly? Why haven't I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? 12 Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth, that you should tell me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?' 13 Where could I get 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 If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don't let me see my wretchedness."
  • Deut 1:9 : 9 I spoke to you at that time, saying, "I am not able to bear you myself alone:
  • 1 Kgs 3:7-9 : 7 Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am but a little child. I don't know how to go out or come in. 8 Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can't be numbered nor counted for multitude. 9 Give your servant therefore 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 vision to your saints, and said, "I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.
  • 2 Cor 2:16 : 16 to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
  • 2 Cor 3:5 : 5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
  • Exod 18:13-16 : 13 It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening. 14 When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?" 15 Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God. 16 When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws."

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  • Deut 1:9-11
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    82%

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

    10 Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.

    11 Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!

  • Deut 1:13-16
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    78%

    13 Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you."

    14 You answered me, and said, "The thing which you have spoken is good [for us] to do."

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

    16 I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

  • Num 11:11-15
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    11 Moses said to Yahweh, "Why have you treated with your servant so badly? Why haven't I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

    12 Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth, that you should tell me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?'

    13 Where could I get 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 If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don't let me see my wretchedness."

  • Exod 18:18-19
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    75%

    18 You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.

    19 Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.

  • Deut 1:31
    72%

    31 and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahweh your God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place."

  • 1 Kgs 12:9-11
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    9 He said to them, "What counsel do you give, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, 'Make the yoke that your father did put on us lighter?'"

    10 The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall tell this people who spoke to you, saying, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us;' you shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist.

    11 Now whereas my father burdened 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
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    17 I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone.

  • 2 Chr 10:9-10
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    71%

    9 He said to them, "What counsel do you give, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, 'Make the yoke that your father did put on us lighter?'"

    10 The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us;' thus you shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist.

  • Exod 18:22-23
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    22 Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.

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

  • Ps 81:6
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    6 "I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

  • Mic 6:3
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    3 My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

  • 1 Kgs 12:4
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    4 "Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you."

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

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  • Num 14:27
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    27 "How long [shall I bear] with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

  • Deut 29:11
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    11 your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;

  • Deut 1:42
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    42 Yahweh said to me, "Tell them, 'Don't go up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be struck before your enemies.'"

  • 2 Chr 10:4
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    4 "Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you."

  • Amos 2:13
    68%

    13 Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.

  • Nah 1:12-13
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    68%

    12 Thus says Yahweh: "Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

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

  • Deut 1:22-23
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    68%

    22 You came near to me everyone of you, and said, "Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come."

    23 The thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:

  • 2 Sam 15:33
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    33 David said to him, "If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me;

  • 2 Sam 15:20
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    20 Whereas you came but yesterday, should I this day make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you."

  • 1 Kgs 3:8
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    8 Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can't be numbered nor counted for multitude.

  • Isa 1:24
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    24 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from 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 has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"

  • 2 Chr 28:10-11
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    10 Now you purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondservants and bondmaids for yourselves. Aren't there even with you trespasses of your own against Yahweh your God?

    11 Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives, that you have taken captive from your brothers; for the fierce wrath of Yahweh is on you."

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    10 Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, 'Give me a king and princes?'

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    12 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.

  • Num 22:6
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    6 Please come now therefore curse me this people; 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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    2 He said to them, "What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn't the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

  • Deut 1:29
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    29 Then I said to you, "Don't dread, neither be afraid of them.