Deuteronomy 32:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

With fat of lambs; for though the fat wherewith the inward parts were covered was not to be eaten by them, but offered to God, Leviticus 3:9,10, yet that fat which was fast joined to and mixed with the flesh they might eat, as the Jewish doctors note. Bashan; a place famous for excellent cattle, Numbers 32:4,33. With the fat of kidneys of wheat, i.e. with the finest of the grains or kernels of wheat, compared to kidneys for their shape, and plumpness, and largeness. Compare Psalms 81:16, Psalms 147:14. The pure blood of the grape; wine not mixed with water, but pure as it comes from the grape, which was of a red or bloody colour. See Psalms 75:8 Isaiah 27:2.

Deuteronomy 32:14

14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.