Numbers 24:5
How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
KJV
Quam pulchra tabernacula tua, Jacob, et tentoria tua, Israël !
Vulgate
ὡς καλοί σου οἱ οἶκοι, Ἰακώβ, αἱ σκηναί σου, Ἰσραήλ·
LXX
How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, Thy tabernacles, O Israel!
ASV
מַה טֹּ֥בוּ אֹהָלֶ֖י/ךָ יַעֲקֹ֑ב מִשְׁכְּנֹתֶ֖י/ךָ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֹ֣הֶל
'hl
noun · 344×
ט֔וֹב
tvb
verb · 24×
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
yshr'l
proper_noun · 2486×
יַעֲקֹ֖ב
y'qb
proper_noun · 346×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
מִּשְׁכָּ֖ן
mshkn
noun · 138×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
33. Unbelief of Jews and scoffing of Greeks. The former confounded by their own Scriptures. Prophecies of His coming as God and as Man. These things being so, and the Resurrection of His body and the victory gained over death by the Saviour being clearly proved, come now let us put to rebuke both the disbelief of the Jews and the scoffing of the Gentiles. 2. For these, perhaps,…
44. While Antony was thus speaking all rejoiced; in some the love of virtue increased, in others carelessness was thrown aside, the self-conceit of others was stopped; and all were persuaded to despise the assaults of the Evil One, and marvelled at the grace given to Antony from the Lord for the discerning of spirits. So their cells were in the mountains, like filled with holy …
Cross-references
- Deut 33:29 — Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou
- Josh 24:10 — But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
- Lev 23:42 — Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
- Neh 13:2 — Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
- Num 2:34 — And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of th