Numbers 24:5

How goodly are your habitations, Jacob, and your tents, Israel!

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4he says who hears the oracle of the Mighty One, who saw a vision of God in sleep; his eyes were opened:

6as shady groves, and as gardens by a river, and as tents which God pitched, and as cedars by the waters.

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Cross References

Leviticus 23:42Seven days you⌃ shall dwell in tabernacles: every native in Israel shall dwell in tents,

Numbers 24:2And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and sees Israel encamped by their tribes; and the Spirit of God came upon him.

Joshua 24:10But the Lord your God would not destroy you; and he greatly blessed us, and rescued us out of their hands, and delivered them to us.

Psalms 84:2You have forgiven your people their transgressions; you have covered all their sins. Pause. 1

Song of Solomon 6:4Turn away your eyes from before me, for they have ravished me: your hair is as flocks of goats which have appeared from Galaad.

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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