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 feed his flock like a shepherd: he will gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those that are with young.

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.

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

As a nursing

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget thee.

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you,

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

The land

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

And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thy only son:

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee, and to thy seed I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father;

And Joseph said to his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey; that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

General references

How can I alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?