...Jehovah, as the instrument employed to accomplish his vast designs, could have refrained from joining in the exclamation, ' How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, 0 Israel !' And when the mind takes a similar survey of a Christian country, and compares it with heathen...

...Antiquities of the Jews. The admirable order which was here observed drew from Balaam the following exclamation, — "How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel ! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign-aloes...

...of conscience, and forced to compare their situation with that of the servants of God, and to say, How goodly are thy tents O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel ! Perhaps that offender never lived who has not occasionally sighed to partake the mercies and blessings...

...words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open : 5 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel ! 6 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes...

...At the sight of these appointed dwellings, all the instruments and every voice at once struck up, " How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel ; as the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the tree of lign aloes which...

...what was beheld by the man whose eyes the Lord had opened, or to exclaim with joyful conviction, " How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel !" Even imagination refuses to regale itself for a moment, in contemplation of the really existing,...

...distinguished by the blessing of the Lord: on beholding the order of the tribes, and encampment he exclaimed, " How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel ; as the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river side, as the trees of lign aloes which...

...as spectators at the holy solemnity, and looking down upon the privileged partakers, sigh and say, " How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel !" — yet are restrained from approaching, not by carnality but timidity ; and by forgetting that...

...Peor, he views Israel abiding in their tents ; and from the same spirit he takes up the parable, " How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel. As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river side, as the trees of lign-aloes, which...

...words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open: How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel ! As the vallies are they spread forth, as gardens by the river side, as the trees of lignaloes which...