Numbers 24:5

How goodly are your tents, Jacob [Supplanter], 2 and your tents, Israel [God prevails]! 1

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

4he says, who sh'ma ·hears obeys· the words of God, 2 who sees the vision of Shaddai [Almighty], 2 falling down, and having his eyes open: 1

6As valleys they are spread out, 2 as gardens by the riverside, 2 as aloes which Adonai has planted, 2 as cedar trees beside the waters. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 23:42+ 23:42. Lev 23:42 (Lev 23:39-43) (#4.315): To dwell in a sukkah ·temporary dwellings· for seven days during Sukkot ·Tabernacles· You shall dwell in sukkot ·temporary tents· seven days. All who are native-born in Israel [God prevails] shall dwell in a sukkah ·temporary tent·,

Numbers 24:2Balaam [Not people, Destroyer of people] lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel [God prevails] dwelling according to their tribes; and the breath mind Spirit of God came on him.

Psalms 84:2My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Adonai. 2 My heart and my flesh cry out for the Elohim Chayim [Living God]. 1

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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