Psalms 81:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 81

¹⁶He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

Psalms 81:16 —

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Cross-References

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Deuteronomy 32:13-14
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; …
Psalms 147:14
He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.
1 Samuel 14:25-26
And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground. …
Judges 14:18
And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
Joel 2:24
And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-16)

God, by the psalmist, here speaks to Israel, and in them to us, on whom the ends of the world are come. I. He demands their diligent and serious attention to what he was about to say (Ps. 81:8): “ Hear, O my people! and who should hear me if my people will not? I have heard and answered thee; now wilt thou hear me? Hear what is said with the greatest solemnity and the most unquestionable certainty…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

13-16. Obedience would have secured all promised blessings and the subjection of foes. In this passage, “should have,” “would have,” &c., are better, “should” and “would” expressing God’s intention at the time, that is, when they left Egypt.