Deuteronomy 1:12
“How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?”
The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
(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!)
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
Related Verses
“And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:”
“And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.”
“And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.”
“Also the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.”
“If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”