Numbers 24:6
As valleys stretched out, as gardens by the river-side; as aloes planted of the LORD, as cedars beside the waters;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
5How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, thy dwellings, O Israel!
Cross References
Genesis 2:8And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.
Psalms 1:3And he shall be like a tree planted by streams of water, that bringeth forth its fruit in its season, and whose leaf doth not wither; and in whatsoever he doeth he shall prosper.
Psalms 92:12(92-13) The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Song of Solomon 4:12A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
Isaiah 41:19I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia-tree, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane-tree, and the larch together;
Jeremiah 17:18Let them be ashamed that persecute me, but let not me be ashamed; Let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed; Bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
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 →