Deuteronomy 1:9 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Deuteronomy 1:9

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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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 (Exodus 18:18). In noticing his practical adoption of a plan by which the administration of justice was committed to a select number of subordinate officers, Moses, by a beautiful allusion to the patriarchal blessing, ascribed the necessity of that memorable change in the government to the vast increase of the population.

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