King James Version
Deuteronomy 1:10 in the King James Version says “The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.”
Deuteronomy 1:10 · KJV
Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them. set: Heb. given
And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“your God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“you and behold ye are this day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“of heaven”
H8064the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r
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