“ How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? ”
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 com...
How can I myself alone (i) bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? (i) Signifying how great a burden it is, to govern the people.
Deuteronomy 1:9-18 cf. Exodus 18:13-26 * ( E )) . The idea of appointing judges to assist Moses is in Exodus 18:17-23 suggested by Jethro not, as here, by Moses himself. The parallel passa...
How. See note on Lamentations 1:1 . cumbrance. Hebrew. torah, only here and Isaiah 1:14 (trouble).
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: I spake unto you at that time - a little before their arrival in Horeb. Moses addresses that new generation...
First Discourse ( Deuteronomy 1:14 to Deuteronomy 4:43 ) The long sojourn in the wilderness is now drawing to a close. The Israelites are encamped in the Plains of Moab within sight of the Promi...
(9-18) In these words Moses appears to combine the recollection of two distinct things: (1) the advice of Jethro ( Exodus 18 ), by following which he would be relieved from the ordinary pressure of l...
THE DIVINE GOVERNMENT Deuteronomy 1:1-46 ; Deuteronomy 2:1-37 ; Deuteronomy 3:1-29 AFTER these preliminary discussions we now enter upon the exposition. With the exception of the first two ve...
Moses Recalls the Start from Horeb Deuteronomy 1:1-18 To this new generation Moses spake the holy law of God, since they had not heard it at Sinai. In view of the great Lawgiver's approaching d...
The Book of Deuteronomy is didactic rather than historic. It consists of a collection of the final utterances of Moses and is a Book of review. It commences with a discourse in which Moses reviewed...
It is sweetly, said of JESUS, in his unequalled undertaking, "that of the people there was none with him." Isaiah 63:3 . Oh! thou precious bearer of the burdens of thy people! may I never lose sight...
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 str...
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? Ver. 12. Hear your cumbrance. ] A prince's temples are not so compassed with a crown, as his mind besieged with cares;...
How can I alone bear your burden? The trouble of ruling and managing so perverse a people. Your strife Your contentions among yourselves, for the determination whereof the elders were appointed....
THE COMMAND TO LEAVE HOREB (vs.1-8) In Numbers 32:1-42 Israel is seen to remain in the area east of Jordan long enough for the two and a half tribes to build cities. Thus God required no haste...
The Charge to Magistrates. B. C. 1451. 9 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I...
Your burden; the trouble of ruling and managing so perverse a people. Your strife; either your quarrellings with God; or rather your contentions among yourselves, for the determination whereof th...
He Points Out That There Should In Fact Have Been No Problem With Their Possessing Canaan Because Yahweh Had Made Them A Great Nation, Justly and Wisely Watched Over By Their Rulers, And Had Led The...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— I. Biographical . Sihon . סִיחן (Slkhôn). LXX . Σηών. Joseph. Σιχών. King of the Amorites when the Israelites reached the borders of Canaan,—a man of courage and...
Deuteronomy 1:1 . In the plain over against the Red sea. סו Suph, red, not being joined in the text with ים Yam, sea, should not be rendered the Red sea. Zuph being the name of a town, and...
And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone. The promised increase pleaded I. The glorious being addressed. “The Lord God of your fathers.” 1. In His es...
TITLE AND INTRODUCTION Deuteronomy 1:1-5 . EXPOSITION Deuteronomy 1:1-5 In these verses we have the inscription and general introduction to the book, announcing the contents of the...
The Assistants of Moses
1 Kings 3:7-9 ; 2 Corinthians 2:16 ; 2 Corinthians 3:5 ; Deuteronomy 1:9 ; Exodus 18:13-16 ; Numbers 11:11-15 ; Psalms 89:19
Kadesh-Barnea Deuteronomy 1:1-43 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are three things which need to be brought out in a definite way. 1. The suggestion of the verbal inspiration of the Bible. The chap...
Your burden — The trouble of ruling and managing so perverse a people. Your strife — Your contentions among yourselves, for the determnination whereof the elders were appointed.