Numbers 24:6

Like valleys they spread out, 2 like gardens by the riverside, 2 like aloes planted by Yahweh, 2 like cedars beside the waters. 1

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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 beautiful are your tents, Jacob, 2 the place where you live, Israel! 1

7Water flows from their buckets, 2 and their seed is well-watered. 1 Their king is to be higher than Agag, 2 and their kingdom will be honored. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 2:8Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Psalms 1:3He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water 1 that produces its fruit in its season, 1 whose leaves do not wither; 1 whatever he does will prosper. 1

Psalms 92:12The righteous will flourish like the palm tree; 1 they will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 1

Song of Solomon 4:12My sister, my bride is a garden locked up, 1 a garden locked up, a spring that is sealed. 1

Isaiah 41:19In the wilderness I will set the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the olive tree. 1 I will set the cypress in the desert plain, with the pines and the cypress box trees. 1

Jeremiah 17:18May my pursuers be ashamed, but do not let me be ashamed. May they be dismayed, but do not let me be dismayed. 1 Send the day of disaster against them and shatter them with a double share of 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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