GARDENS

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, 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