Deuteronomy 32:13

The Lord gave you the high country to rule, and fed you with the crops of the field to eat. He sustained you with honey from the rock and olive oil from the flinty crag,

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In The King James Version

He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

In Context

12The Lord was the only one who led you; no foreign god was with him.

14with yogurt from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, along with the best wheat. You drank the wine made from the best grapes.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 33:26There is no one like the God of Israel, who rides across the heavens to come to help you; who rides the clouds in majesty.

Job 29:6My herds produced much milk, and oil flowed freely from my olive presses.

Isaiah 48:21They weren't thirsty when he led them through the desert—he made water come out of the rock for them. He split the rock open and water poured out.

Ezekiel 16:13You wore gold and silver jewelry, and your clothes were made of the finest linen, expensive fabric, and embroidered cloth. You ate bread made with the best flour, and honey and olive oil. You grew even more beautiful and became a queen.

Ezekiel 36:2This is what the Lord God says: The enemy said about you, ‘Aha! These old high places now belong to us,’

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:8-15

7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. 8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. 9 For the Lord 's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept… Read the whole commentary →

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