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;
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Gill's Exposition
Butter of kine,.... Made of milk, which kine or cows give; Jarchi says, this is the fat that is gathered on the top of milk, he means cream, and which indeed was the butter of the ancients, and is…
Song of Moses If Deu 32:1-3 be regarded as the introduction, and Deu 32:43 as the conclusion, the main contents of the song may be grouped under three heads, namely, (1) Deu 32:4-18, the faithfulness…
Moses, having in general represented God to them as their great benefactor, whom they were bound in gratitude to observe and obey, in these verses gives particular instances of God's kindness to them…
Cambridge Bible
ride on the heights] Cp. Amo 4:12.
and to eat of the fruit of the hills] So Sam. and LXX for the Heb. he doth eat; hills not fieldsas in Deu 28:3, Heb. sadai, early form sadeh, in the earlier sense of…
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