New English Translation
Deuteronomy 1:12
12But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?
Deuteronomy 1:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
- New International Version (NIV)But how can I bear your problems and your burdens and your disputes all by myself?
- English Standard Version (ESV)How can I bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife?
- New King James Version (NKJV)How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints?
Context of Deuteronomy 1:12
10The Lord your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky. 11Indeed, may the Lord, the God of your ancestors, make you a thousand times more numerous than you are now, blessing you just as he said he would! But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife? 13Select wise and practical men, those known among your tribes, whom I may appoint as your leaders.” 14You replied to me that what I had said to you was good.
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אֵיכָ֥ה אֶשָּׂ֖א לְבַדִּ֑י טָרְחֲכֶ֥ם וּמַֽשַּׂאֲכֶ֖ם וְרִֽיבְכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Deuteronomy 1:12
- Deuteronomy 1:9I also said to you at that time, “I am no longer able to sustain you by myself.
- Exodus 18:13On the next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning until evening.
- Numbers 11:11And Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you afflicted your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of this entire people on me?
- 1 Kings 8:7The cherubs’ wings extended over the place where the ark sat; the cherubs overshadowed the ark and its poles.
- Psalms 89:19Then you spoke through a vision to your faithful followers and said: “I have energized a warrior; I have raised up a young man from the people.
- 2 Corinthians 2:16to the latter an odor from death to death, but to the former a fragrance from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?
- 2 Corinthians 3:5Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 1:12
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9-15Verses 9-15 This appointment of the “captains” (compare Exodus 18:21 ff) must not be confounded with that of the elders in Numbers 11:16 ff. The former would number 78,600; the latter were 70 only. A comparison between this passage and that in Exodus makes it obvious that Moses is only touching on certain parts of the whole history, without regard to order of time, but with a special purpose. This important arrangement for the good government of the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-18Verses 9-18 Moses reminds the people of the happy constitution of their government, which might make them all safe and easy, if it was not their own fault. He owns the fulfilment of God's promise to Abraham, and prays for the further accomplishment of it. We are not straitened in the power and goodness of God; why should we be straitened in our own faith and hope? Good laws were given to the Israelites, and good men were to see to the execution of them…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-18See Exodus 18:13–27.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 9-189-18. I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone--a little before their arrival in Horeb. Moses addresses that new generation as the representatives of their fathers, in whose sight and hearing all the transactions he recounts took place. A reference is here made to the suggestion of Jethro (Ex 18:18). In noticing his practical adoption of a plan by which the administration of justice was committed to a select number of…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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