7 Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the1 plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates.
8 See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the Lord1 swore to your fathers—to aAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.’
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9 “And aI spoke to you at that time, saying: ‘I1 alone am not able to bear you.
10 The Lord your God has multiplied you, aand here you are today, as the stars of heaven in multitude.
11 aMay the Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you bas He has promised you!
12 aHow can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints?
13 Choose wise, understanding, and knowledgeable men from among your tribes, and I will make them1 heads over you.’
14 And you answered me and said, ‘The thing which you have told us to do is good.’
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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Deuteronomy 1:9.
Deuteronomy 1:9-13
Are you beginning to see a change? With Exodus 18, this gives us an idea that Moses did all of the choosing, and now we are finding a clarification of that. You can see that the clarification is really very logical because how many people did Moses actually have enough conversations with, business with, out of millions of people? He knew these people all well enough to appoint them because he knew their background, their wisdom, their understanding.
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