Deuteronomy 1:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

The Lord... bare thee, as a man doth bear his son. — From this comes the expression in Acts 13:18, “He bare them as a nursing father in the wilderness.” — Rev. N. T., margin.

Deuteronomy 1:31

31 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.