Numbers 24:6
As valleys they have been stretched out, As gardens by a river; As aloes Jehovah hath planted, As cedars by waters;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
5How good have been thy tents, O Jacob, Thy tabernacles, O Israel;
Cross References
Genesis 2:8And Jehovah God planteth a garden in Eden, at the east, and He setteth there the man whom He hath formed;
Psalms 1:3And he hath been as a tree, Planted by rivulets of water, That giveth its fruit in its season, And its leaf doth not wither, And all that he doth he causeth to prosper.
Psalms 92:12The righteous as a palm-tree flourisheth, As a cedar in Lebanon he groweth.
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 let not me be ashamed — me! Let them be affrighted, and let not me be affrighted — me! Bring in on them a day of evil, And a second time [with] destruction destroy them.
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 →