Numbers 24:5

‘How beautiful are your tabernacles, O Jacob, and your tents, O Israel!

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In The King James Version

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!

In Context

4the hearer of the sermon of God, he who has gazed upon a vision of the Almighty, he who falls down and so his eyes are opened, has declared:

6They are like forested valleys, like gardens irrigated next to rivers, like tabernacles which the Lord has fixed, like cedars close to waters.

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Cross References

Leviticus 23:42and you shall live under shelters for seven days. All who are of the family of Israel shall dwell in tabernacles,

Numbers 24:2and lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel dwelling in tents by their tribes. And with the Spirit of God rushing into him,

Joshua 24:10And I was not willing to listen to him, but on the contrary, I blessed you through him, and I freed you from his hand.

Psalms 84:2O Lord, you have blessed your land. You have turned aside the captivity of Jacob.

Song of Solomon 6:4Avert your eyes from me, for they have caused me to fly away. Your hair is like a flock of goats, which have appeared out of Gilead.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 24:2-10

Balaam Blesses Israel a Third Time. ( b. c. 1452.) 1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness. 2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him. 3 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: 4 He hath said, which heard the words of God,… Read the whole commentary →

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