God’s Word Translation
Numbers 24:5
5How beautiful are your tents, Jacob, and the places where you live, Israel.
Numbers 24:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
- New International Version (NIV)“How beautiful are your tents, Jacob, your dwelling places, Israel!
- English Standard Version (ESV)How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your encampments, O Israel!
- New King James Version (NKJV)“How lovely are your tents, O Jacob! Your dwellings, O Israel!
Context of Numbers 24:5
3and he delivered this message: “This is the message of Balaam, son of Beor. This is the message of the man whose eyesight is clear. 4This is the message of the one who hears God’s words, has a vision from the Almighty, and falls ⌞into a trance⌟ with his eyes open: How beautiful are your tents, Jacob, and the places where you live, Israel. 6Your tents spread out like rivers, like gardens by a river, like aloes planted by the Lord, like cedars by the water. 7Water will flow from their buckets, and their crops will have plenty of water. Their king will be greater than Agag, and their kingdom will be considered the best.
Read all of Numbers 24Numbers 24:5 word by word
מַה־טֹּ֥בוּ אֹהָלֶ֖יךָ יַעֲקֹ֑ב מִשְׁכְּנֹתֶ֖יךָ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Numbers 24:5
- Genesis 2:8The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east. That’s where he put the man whom he had formed.
- Genesis 13:10Then Lot looked in the direction of Zoar as far as he could see. He saw that the whole Jordan Plain was well-watered like the Lord’s garden or like Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
- Isaiah 58:11The Lord will continually guide you and satisfy you even in sun-baked places. He will strengthen your bones. You will become like a watered garden and like a spring whose water does not stop flowing.
- Jeremiah 31:12They will come and shout for joy on top of Mount Zion. They will stream to it to enjoy the Lord’s blessings: fresh grain, new wine, and olive oil, lambs and calves. Their lives will be like well-watered gardens, and they will never suffer again.
- Joel 3:18On that day new wine will cover the mountains. Milk will flow on the hills. Water will flow in all the brooks of Judah. A spring will flow from the Lord’s temple. It will water the valley of Shittim.
- Psalms 1:3He is like a tree planted beside streams— a tree that produces fruit in season and whose leaves do not wither. He succeeds in everything he does.
- Jeremiah 17:18Put my persecutors to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Terrify them, but do not let me be terrified. Bring the day of disaster on them, and destroy them completely.
- Psalms 104:16The Lord’s trees, the cedars in Lebanon which he planted, drink their fill.
- Isaiah 41:19I will plant cedar, acacia, myrtle, and wild olive trees in the desert. I will place cedar, fir, and cypress trees together in the wilderness.
- Psalms 92:12Righteous people flourish like palm trees and grow tall like the cedars in Lebanon.
- Ezekiel 31:3What about Assyria? It was a cedar in Lebanon with fine branches that shaded the forest. It was very tall. Its top was among the clouds.
- Ezekiel 47:12All kinds of fruit trees will grow on both sides of the river. Their leaves won’t wither, and they won’t fail to produce fruit. Each month they will produce fresh fruit because this water flows from the holy place. The fruit will be good food, and the leaves will be used for healing.”
Commentaries on Numbers 24:5
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-6God showed his love for his people by giving them many blessings. These blessings were signs of his care and favor toward Israel.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-75-7. How goodly are thy tents, ... O Israel!--a fine burst of admiration, expressed in highly poetical strains. All travellers describe the beauty which the circular area of Bedouin tents impart to the desert. How impressive, then, must have been the view, as seen from the heights of Abarim, of the immense camp of Israel extended over the subjacent plains.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Numbers 24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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