King James Version
Deuteronomy 32:12 in the King James Version says “So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 32 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.”
Deuteronomy 32:12 · KJV
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. led: or, compassed
As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
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;
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“So the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“did lead”
H5148to guide; by implication, to transport (into exile, or as colonists)
adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then
“god”
H410strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the almighty (but used also of any deity)
“him and there was no strange”
H5236foreign, or (concretely) a foreigner, or (abstractly) heathendom
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