Numbers 24:7

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

⁶ They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters.

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.

⁹ He crouches, he lies down like a lion; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”

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.

Compare

BSB: 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.
KJV: He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
WEB: Water shall flow from his buckets. His seed shall be in many waters. His king shall be higher than Agag. His kingdom shall be exalted.
ASV: Water shall flow from his buckets, And his seed shall be in many waters, And his king shall be higher than Agag, And his kingdom shall be exalted.
DARBY: Water shall flow out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in great waters, And his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
BLB: He shall pour water from his buckets, and his seed [is] abundant in waters. And his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

ÅB: Det strømmer vann av hans spann, og hans slekt bor ved store vann. Mektigere enn Agag[^2] skal hans konge være, opphøyet hans kongerike!
OTB: Rikelig vann skal flyte fra hans kar, og hans etterkommere skal være tallrike; hans konge skal være større enn Agag, og hans kongerike skal løftes høyt.
B1930: Det strømmer vann av hans spann, og hans ætt bor ved store vann. Mektigere enn Agag skal hans konge være, ophøiet hans kongerike! / < sannsynligvis et felles navn på amalekittenes konger; 1SA 15, 8.>

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

2 Samuel 5:12
And David realized that the LORD had established him as king over Israel and had exalted his kingdom for the sake of His people Israel.
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1 Chronicles 14:2
And David realized that the LORD had established him as king over Israel and had highly exalted his kingdom for the sake of His people Israel.
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Jeremiah 51:13
You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.
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Revelation 17:1
Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.
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Revelation 19:16
And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
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1 Samuel 15:8–9
He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.
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Revelation 17:15
Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.
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Psalms 93:3–4
The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
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