Deuteronomy 32:13

“ After they entered the land that Yahweh promised to give to them, Yahweh enabled them to rule the hilly areas; they ate the crops that grew in the fields. They found honey in the rocks, and their olive trees [MTY] grew even in stony ground.

Translation for Translators

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

12Yahweh was the only one who led them; no other foreign god helped him.

14The cows gave them plenty of curds/yogurt, the goats gave them plenty of milk, they had well-fed sheep and cattle, they had very good wheat, and they made delicious wine from their grapes.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 33:26“You people of Israel, there is no god like your God, who rides majestically across the sky to help you.

Job 29:6My herds provided me with plenty of milk, and streams of oil flowed from the rock where my olives were pressed.

Isaiah 48:21They were not thirsty when he led them through the desert, because he split open the rock and caused water to gush/flow out for them to drink.

Ezekiel 16:13So it was as though you wore gold and silver ornaments. You had clothes made from fine ◄linen/white cloth► and other expensive embroidered material/cloth. You ate bread made from fine flour, honey, and olive oil. You became very beautiful, like [MET] a queen.

Ezekiel 36:2This is what Yahweh the Lord says: Your enemies happily said about you, ‘Aha! The mountains in Israel that have existed for a long time have become ours!’”

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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