Numbers 24:6 (BSB)

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

From Numbers 24. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 24:6

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 24:1-9: The blessing itself which Balaam here pronounces upon Israel is much the same with the two we had in the foregoing chapter; but the introduction to it is different. I. The method of proceeding here varies much in several instances. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 24:6: As the valleys are they spread forth,.... Long and broad, lying between several mountains, and reaching from hill to hill; so the armies of Israel lay encamped in the plains and villages of Moab, making a very considerable length and breadth; the camp of Israel is said to be twelve miles long, and twelve miles broad; so the Targum on Num 2:3 and this may...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 24:6: As the valleys--Hebrew, "brooks," the watercourses of the mountains. lign aloes--an aromatic shrub on the banks of his native Euphrates, the conical form of which suggested an apt resemblance to a tent. The redundant imagery of these verses depicts the humble origin, rapid progress, and prosperity of Israel.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 24:5-6: Num 24:5-6 “How beautiful are thy tents, O Jacob! thy dwellings, O Israel! Like valleys are they spread out, like gardens by the stream, like aloes which Jehovah has planted, like cedars by the waters. Water will flow out of his buckets, and his seed is by many waters.