Numbers 24:5-6
as gardens Gen 2:8-10, Gen 13:10; Song 4:12-15, Song 6:11; Isa 58:11; Jer 31:12; Joel 3:18 as the trees Ahalim, "lign-aloe trees." This tree, which grows in the East Indies, is described as being eight or ten feet in height, with a stem the thickness of a man's thigh. At the top grows a large tuft of jagged and thick leaves, thick and indented, broad at the bottom, but growing narrower towards the point, and about four feet in length. The blossoms are red, intermingled with yellow, and double like cloves; from which comes a red and white fruit, of the size of a pea, oblong and triangular, with three apartments filled with seed. The tree has a very beautiful appearance; and a forest of them is said to bear a resemblance to a numerous encampment. Ps 1:3; Jer 17:18 which the Ps 104:16; Isa 41:19 as cedar Ps 92:12-14; Ezek 31:3-4, Ezek 47:12
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