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 shall feed his flock like a herdsman. He shall gather the lambs together with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall kindly entreat those that bear young.

I will raise up to them one only shepherd: even my servant David. He shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

As a nursing

Doth a wife forget the child of her womb, and the son who she hath born? And though she do forget, yet will not I forget thee.

My little children - of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be fashioned in you -

But were tender among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children,

The land

for all the land which thou seest will I give unto thee and to thy seed for ever.

saying, "By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, because thou hast done this thing and hast not spared thy only son,

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 countries. And I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father,

And Joseph said unto his brethren, "I die; And God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land, unto the land which he sware unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."

When the LORD hath brought thee in to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers that he would give thee: a land wherein milk and honey floweth, then see that thou keep this service in this same month.

General references

'How,' said I, 'can I myself alone bear the cumbrance, charge, and strife that is among you?