Matthew Poole and continuators on 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 .

(i. e.) To conquer their strongest holds, which oft-times are in the mountains, and their cities fenced with walls of greatest height and strength, Deut. 1. 28. and 2. 36. and 33. 29. Isa. 58. 14. To ride upon in Scripture phrase is to subdue or conquer, as Psal. 45. 4. and 66. 12. Rev. 6. 2. and 19. 11, 14.

This being a land flowing with hony, Exod. 3. 8, 17. where the bees made hony even in woods, as 1 Sam▪ 14. or in the holes of rocks, or in the trees that grew upon or among rocks.

The olive trees grow and fructifie most in rocky or hilly places.

Marginal references: Psal. 81. 1[illegible: 1+ letters].