Deuteronomy 32:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

That he might eat. Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint read "caused him to eat". Hebrew text reads "And he did eat".

increase. Hebrew. nub, fruit from land. First occurrence.

honey... oil. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species) for all delicious things.

rock. Hebrew sel'a. a rock, as. fortress, immovable.

flinty rock. Hebrew. zur. rock in situ, sharp and precipitous. Hence. refuge and security.

Deuteronomy 32:13

13 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;