Numbers 24:5

How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel!

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who bows down with eyes wide open:

6They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters.

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Cross References

Leviticus 23:42You are to dwell in booths for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must dwell in booths,

Numbers 24:2When Balaam looked up and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came upon him,

Joshua 24:10but I would not listen to Balaam. So he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you from his hand.

Psalms 84:2My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Song of Solomon 6:4You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.

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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