Deuteronomy 1:12

12 How can I myself alone bear your troubles and your burdens and your strife?

Deuteronomy 1:12 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 1:12

How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden,
and your strife?
] His meaning is, that he could not hear and try all their causes, and determine all their law suits, and decide the strifes and controversies which arose between them; it was too heavy for him, and brought too much trouble and incumbrance upon him.

Deuteronomy 1:12 In-Context

10 the LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

11 Let the LORD God of your fathers add upon you a thousand times so many more as ye are and bless you, as he has promised!

12 How can I myself alone bear your troubles and your burdens and your strife?

13 Give me from among you, of your tribes, wise and understanding and expert men, and I will make them the head over you.

14 And ye answered me and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.