Deuteronomy 32:10

He maintained him in the wilderness, in burning thirst and a dry land: he led him about and instructed him, and kept him as the apple of an eye.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

In Context

9And his people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, Israel was the line of his inheritance.

11As an eagle would watch over his brood, and yearns over his young, receives them having spread his wings, and takes them up on his back:

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:36His voice was made audible from heaven to instruct you, and he showed you upon the earth his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.

Nehemiah 9:19Yet you in your great compassions did not forsake them in the wilderness: you did not turn away from them the pillar of the cloud by day, to guide them in the way, nor the pillar of fire by night, to enlighten for them the way wherein they should walk.

Psalms 17:8There went up a smoke in his wrath, and fire burst into a flame at his presence: coals were kindled at it. 1

Psalms 107:4For your mercy is great above the heavens, and your truth reaches to the clouds. 1

Proverbs 7:2keep my commandments, and you shall live; and keep my words as the pupils of your eyes.

Jeremiah 2:6And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land which no man at all went through, and no man lived there?

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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