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Numbers 24:6

4 the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who bows down with eyes wide open:

5 How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel!

They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters.

7 Water will flow from his buckets, and his seed will have abundant water. His king will be greater than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.

8 God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters.
KJV
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.
WEB
As valleys they are spread out, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which the LORD has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.
ASV
As valleys are they spread forth, As gardens by the river-side, As lign-aloes which Jehovah hath planted, As cedar-trees beside the waters.
DARBY
Like valleys are they spread forth, like gardens by the river side, Like aloe-trees which Jehovah hath planted, like cedars beside the waters.
BLB
Like valleys that stretch out, like gardens by the river, like aloes planted by YHWH, like cedars beside the waters.
ÅB
Som vide bekkedaler, som haver ved en elv, som aloëtrær Herren har plantet, som sedrer ved vannet!
OTB
Som daler strekker de seg, som hager ved en elv, som aloer plantet av Herren, som sedrer ved vannene.
B1930
Som vide bekkedaler, som haver ved en elv, som aloëtrær Herren har plantet, som sedrer ved vannet!

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Psalms 1:3

    He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

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  • Isaiah 58:11

    The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

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  • Psalms 104:16

    The trees of the LORD have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,

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  • Song of Solomon 6:11

    I went down to the walnut grove to see the blossoms of the valley, to see if the vines were budding or the pomegranates were in bloom.

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  • Psalms 45:8

    All your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces of ivory the harps make you glad.

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  • Psalms 92:12–14

    The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

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  • Joel 3:18

    And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.

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  • Genesis 2:8–10

    And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.

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