Deuteronomy 32:13

ride on the heights] Cp. Amos 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 Deuteronomy 28:3, Heb. sadai, early form sadeh, in the earlier sense of that word (see on Deuteronomy 5:21) as in Judges 5:4, parallel to heights or high places. Israel's territory was a highland one.

suckles] With Sam. and Syr. omit and.

honey The honey of the O.T. is wild, as here, Judges 14:8 ff., 1 Samuel 14:25 ff., Psalms 81:16; apiculture, a very ancient craft, is not implied till the N.T. speaks of wild honey (Matthew 3:4; Mark 1:6). See further Jerus.i. 306 f., E.B.art. -Honey," and ZDPV. xxxii. 151.

oil of the flinty rock Lit. the flint of the rock. The olive never yields oil so richly as on limestone terraces and their débris; see Jerus.i. 300.