Numbers 24:5

How good have been your tents, O Jacob, || Your dwelling places, O Israel;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4An affirmation of him who is hearing sayings of God, || Who sees a vision of the Almighty, || Falling—and eyes uncovered:

6They have been stretched out as valleys, || As gardens by a river; As aloes YHWH has planted, || As cedars by waters;

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Cross References

Leviticus 23:42You dwell in shelters [for] seven days; all who are natives in Israel dwell in shelters,

Numbers 24:2and Balaam lifts up his eyes, and sees Israel dwelling by its tribes, and the Spirit of God is on him,

Joshua 24:10and I have not been willing to listen to Balaam, and he greatly blesses you, and I deliver you out of his hand.

Psalms 84:2My soul desired, indeed, it has also been consumed, || For the courts of YHWH, || My heart and my flesh cry aloud to the living God,

Song of Solomon 6:4You [are] beautiful, my friend, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, || Awe-inspiring as bannered hosts.

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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