Numbers 11:12

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

Isaiah 40:11

Ezekiel 34:23

John 10:11

As a nursing

Isaiah 49:15

Galatians 4:19

1 Thessalonians 2:7

The land

Exodus 13:5

General references

Deuteronomy 1:12

Bible References

Carry them

He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.

And I will put over them one keeper, and he will give them food, even my servant David; he will give them food and be their keeper.

I am the good keeper of sheep: the good keeper gives his life for the sheep.

As a nursing

Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.

My children, of whom I am again in birth-pains till Christ is formed in you,

But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:

The land

For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.

Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,

Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;

Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.

And it will be that, when the Lord takes you into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, the land which he made an oath to your fathers that he would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you will do this act of worship in this month.

General references

How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?