12How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
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Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in. …
And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? …
And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-18)Moses here reminds them of the happy constitution of their government, which was such as might make them all safe and easy if it was not their own fault. When good laws were given them good men were entrusted with the execution of them, which, as it was an instance of God’s goodness to them, so it was of the care of Moses concerning them; and, it should seem, he mentions it here to recommend himse…
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