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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; 6:2Often 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; 65:3Blasting 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 36:35ILLUSTRATIVE
- 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
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