Numbers 11:12

Modern English Version

Have I conceived all this people? Have I given them birth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse bears the nursing child,’ to the land which You swore to their fathers?

Cross References

Isaiah 49:23

kings shall be your foster fathers and their queens your nursing mothers; they shall bow down to you with their faces toward the ground and lick up the dust of your feet. And you shall know that I am the Lord, for those who wait for Me shall not be ashamed.

Isaiah 40:11

He shall feed His flock like a shepherd; He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

1 Thessalonians 2:7

But we were gentle among you, like a nurse caring for her own children.

Exodus 13:5

It shall be when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this ceremony in this month.

Genesis 50:24

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. God will surely come to you and bring you out of this land to the land of which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

Genesis 26:3

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you; for I will give to you and all your descendants all these lands, and I will fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, of whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,

John 10:11

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

Ezekiel 34:23

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even My servant David. He shall feed them himself and be their shepherd.

Isaiah 49:15

Can a woman forget her nursing child, and have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget.

Genesis 13:15

All the land that you see I will give to you and to your descendants forever.

1 Corinthians 4:15

For if you were to have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. In Christ Jesus I have become a father to you through the gospel.

Genesis 24:7

The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father’s family and from the land of my relatives, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give this land,’ He shall send His angel before you and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

Exodus 13:11

“It shall be when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, just as He swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give it you,

Exodus 33:1

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Depart, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give it.’

2 Kings 10:1

Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the captains of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying,

2 Kings 10:5

So he who was over the house, and he who was over the city, the elders, and the guardians sent word to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and everything you say to us we will do. We will not appoint a man king. Do what is good in your eyes.”

Exodus 6:8

I will bring you into the land, which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and I will give it to you for an inheritance. I am the Lord.’ ”

Deuteronomy 1:31

and in the wilderness, where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”