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Numbers 11:14

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I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

KJV

I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

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This verse in Numbers 11

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

I am not able to bear all this people alone

on Numbers 11:14-15

What Moses asks for is death, out of hand, rather than relief. Elijah prays the same at 1 Kings 19:4 and Jonah at Jonah 4:3, and each of the three has just watched God act in power. Numbers 12:3 calls Moses the meekest man on the face of the earth, and Matthew Henry sets that sentence beside this one and says the best men fail in the grace they are most known for. God answers with seventy men to carry the weight with him.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

I am not able to bear all this people alone,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Had the work been much less, he could not have gone through it in his own strength; but had it been much greater, through God strengthening him, he might have done it. (7.) It was worst of all passionately to wish for death, and desire to be killed out of hand, because just at this time his life was made a little uneasy to him,

The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

8 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Ecclesiastes 4:9Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor.27 worksExodus 18:18Surely you and these people with you will wear yourselves out, because the task is too heavy for you. You cannot handle it alone.7 worksDeuteronomy 1:31and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”6 worksDeuteronomy 1:9–12At that time I said to you, “I cannot carry the burden for you alone.4 works2 Corinthians 2:16To the one, we are an odor of death and demise; to the other, a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a task?2 worksZechariah 6:13Yes, He will build the temple of the LORD; He will be clothed in splendor and will sit on His throne and rule. And He will be a priest on His throne, and there will be peaceful counsel between the two.’2 works
The other 2 cross-references, with their words ▾
Isaiah 9:6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.1 worksPsalms 89:19You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.1 works

The walk

6 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Isaiah 9:6

    For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of…

    it leads to

    • Luke 2:11

      Today in the city of David a Savior has been born to you. He is Christ the Lord!

    • Matthew 28:18

      Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

    • Jeremiah 23:5–6

      Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.

    • Isaiah 7:14

      Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.

    • Matthew 1:23

      “Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).

  • Through

    2 Corinthians 2:16

    To the one, we are an odor of death and demise; to the other, a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a task?

    it leads to

    • 2 Corinthians 3:5–6

      Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 11 →

This page draws on John Calvin, Commentary on the Four Last Books of Moses Arranged in the Form of a Harmony; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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