Deuteronomy 33:24-26

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

²⁴Of Asher he said: Blessed above sons is Asher; let him be acceptable to his brothers, and ^[a]let him dip his foot in oil.

²⁵Your castles and strongholds shall have bars of iron and bronze, and as your day, so shall your strength, your rest and security, be.

²⁶There is none like God, O Jeshurun [Israel], Who rides through the heavens to your help and in His majestic glory through the skies.

Deuteronomy 33:24 The maps of the territory of Asher sometimes suggest the shape of the sole of a foot, sometimes that of a leg and foot; but in either case the Great International Iraq-Petroleum Enterprise, opened in 1935, crossed the area just at the toe of Asher’s “foot.” Oil brought nearly 1,000 miles across the sands from Mesopotamia began pouring through pipes into the Haifa harbor, a million gallons of oil a day. Jacob had prophesied about Asher, “... his bread shall be fat” (Gen. 49:20 kjv), and here Moses says of Asher, “Let him dip his foot in oil”!