Numbers 24:5

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Balaam's Third Oracle. This varies the tenor of the two previous utterances by dwelling upon the fertility of Israel's soil, and the eminence of it...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

How goodly. Figure of speech Thaumasmos. App-6. This is only in "the vision of the Almighty". Jacob. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct),...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

5. How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob! The internal condition of prosperity enjoyed by the people is described by various similitudes akin to...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 175 BALAAM’S THIRD ATTEMPT TO CURSE ISRAEL Numbers 24:5 ; Numbers 24:9 . How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O I...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob! - a fine burst of admiration, expressed...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Balaam (continued) 1-9. Balaam's Third Utterance.
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

BALAAM'S PARABLES Numbers 22:39-41 , Numbers 24:1-9 THE scene is now on some mountain of Moab from which the encampment of the Hebrew tribes i...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Balaam's Vision of Israel's Prosperity Numbers 24:1-14 In these remarkable words Balaam describes the condition and prospects of God's people....
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

From the closing sentences in chapter twenty-three we learn that Balaam was taken to yet another place of vision, from whence he looked on the desert...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

If those beautiful words be considered prophetically as undoubtedly they were intended, what a volume of rich mercies, both temporal and spiritual, i...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob ,.... Not that the matter of which they were made was so rich, or their structure so admirable, but the order in w...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, [and] thy tabernacles, O Israel! Ver. 5. How goodly are thy tents. ] It fareth with a hypocrite, as with a su...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

How goodly are thy tents , &c. Having seen them pitched in the plains of Moab, ( Numbers 24:2 ,) he thus breaks forth into admiration of their b...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

BALAAM'S THIRD PROPHECY (vs.1-13) THE BEAUTY OF LIFE At least Balaam had learned by now that the Lord had the unchangeable purpose of blessin...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Balaam Blesses Israel a Third Time. B. C. 1452....
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 24:3-9 (3a-9) ‘And he took up his incantation (parable), and said,' Here he begins with what was clearly his normal way of going into de...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 24:1 . To seek for enchantments . See Notes on Numbers 23:3 ; Numbers 23:23 . He set his face toward th...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 24:7 . He shall pour the water. This is a fine prediction of the increase of Jacob's seed, and of the temporal blessings which should fall...
The Biblical Illustrator

He set his face toward the wilderness. The face set toward the wilderness Evidently there is a change at this point in Balaam’s method. Hithert...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 24:1 As at other times, or, "as (he had done) time after time." Septuagint, κατὰ τὸ εἰωθός. To seek for enchantments. Ra...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Third Blessing
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!

⁵ How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!

Related Commentaries of Numbers 24:5

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 24:5