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Gardens

Often made by the banks of rivers - Nu 24:6

KINDS OF, MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE

• Herbs
- De 11:10; 1Ki 21:2
• Cucumbers
- Isa 1:8
• Fruit trees
- Ec 2:5,6
• Spices, &c
- So 4:16; 6:2

Often enclosed - So 4:12

Often refreshed by fountains - So 4:15

Taken care of by gardeners - Joh 20:15

Lodges erected in - Isa 1:8

OFTEN USED FOR

• Entertainments
- So 5:1
• Retirement
- Joh 18:1
• Burial places
- 2Ki 21:18,26; Joh 19:41
• Idolatrous worship
- Isa 1:29; 65:3

Blasting of, a punishment - Am 4:9

Jews ordered to plant, in Babylon - Jer 29:5,28

OF EDEN

• Planted by the Lord
- Ge 2:8
• Called the garden of the Lord
- Ge 13:10
• Called the garden of God
- Eze 28:13
• Had every tree good for food
- Ge 2:9
• Watered by a river
- Ge 2:10-14
• Man placed in, to dress and keep
- Ge 2:8,15
• Man driven from, after the fall
- Ge 3:23,24
• Fertility of Canaan like
- Ge 13:10; Joe 2:3
• The future state of the Jews shall be like
- Isa 51:3; Eze 36:35

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of the church
- So 5:1; 6:2,11
• (Enclosed,) of the pleasantness, fruitfulness, and security
of the church - So 4:12
• (Well watered,) of spiritual prosperity of the church
- Isa 58:11; Jer 31:12
• (When dried up,) of the wicked
- Isa 1:30
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