Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
Carry them
As a nursing
General references
Bible References
Carry them
Isaiah 40:11
He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those that have their young.
Ezekiel 34:23
And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
John 10:11
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.
As a nursing
Isaiah 49:15
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee.
Galatians 4:19
My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you--
1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:
The land
Genesis 13:15
for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Genesis 22:16
and said, By myself have I sworn, saith Jehovah, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son,
Genesis 26:3
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee. For unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father.
Genesis 50:24
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die; but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Exodus 13:5
And it shall be, when Jehovah shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
General references
Deuteronomy 1:12
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?