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. He will gently lead those who have their young.
Ezekiel 34:23
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 lays down his life for the sheep.
As a nursing
Isaiah 49:15
"Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
Galatians 4:19
My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you --
1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
The land
Genesis 13:15
for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
Genesis 22:16
and said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
Genesis 26:3
Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
Genesis 50:24
Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
Exodus 13:5
It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.
General references
Deuteronomy 1:12
How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?