Numbers 24:6

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

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In The King James Version

As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.

In Context

5How good have been your tents, O Jacob, || Your dwelling places, O Israel;

7He makes water flow from his buckets, || And his seed [is] in many waters; And his King [is] higher than Gog [[ or Agag]], || And his kingdom is exalted.

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Cross References

Genesis 2:8And YHWH God plants a garden in Eden, at the east, and He sets there the man whom He has formed;

Psalms 1:3And he has been as a tree, || Planted by streams of water, || That gives its fruit in its season, || And its leaf does not wither, || And all that he does he causes to prosper.

Psalms 92:12The righteous flourish as a palm-tree, || He grows as a cedar in Lebanon.

Song of Solomon 4:12A garden shut up [is] my sister-spouse, || A spring shut up—a fountain sealed.

Isaiah 41:19I give in a wilderness the cedar, || Shittah, and myrtle, and oil-tree, || I set in a desert the fir-pine and box-wood together.

Jeremiah 17:18Let my pursuers be ashamed, || And do not let me be ashamed—me! Let them be frightened, || And do not let me be frightened—me! Bring in on them a day of calamity, || And destroy them a second time [with] 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 →

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