Numbers 24:5

24:5 ‘How ¹  beautiful are your tents, O Jacob,

and your dwelling places, O Israel!

Zechariah 12:7

12:7 The Lord also will deliver the homes ²  of Judah first, so that the splendor of the kingship ³  of David and of the people of Jerusalem may not exceed that of Judah.

¹ tn Here מָה (mah) has an exclamatory sense: “How!” (see Gen 28:17).

² tn Heb “the tents” (so NAB, NRSV); NIV “the dwellings.”

³ tn Heb “house,” referring here to the dynastic line. Cf. NLT “the royal line”; CEV “the kingdom.” The same expression is translated “dynasty” in the following verse.