gardens
Gardens mentioned in Scripture:
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Garden of Eden (Gen. 2:8, 9)
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Ahab's garden of herbs (1 Kings 21:2)
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the royal garden (2 Kings 21:18)
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the royal garden at Susa (Esther 1:5)
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the garden of Joseph of Arimathea (John 19:41)
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The garden of Gethsemane (John 18:1)
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The “king's garden” mentioned 2 Kings 25:4, Neh. 3:15, was near the Pool of Siloam.
Gardens were surrounded by hedges of thorns (Isa. 5:5) or by walls of stone (Prov. 24:31). “Watch-towers” or “lodges” were also built in them (Isa. 1:8; Mark 12:1), in which their keepers sat.
On account of their retirement they were frequently used as places for secret prayer and communion with God (Gen. 24:63; Matt. 26:30-36; John 1:48; 18:1, 2).
The dead were sometimes buried in gardens (Gen. 23:19-20; 2 Kings 21:18, 26; 1 Sam. 25:1; Mark 15:46; John 19:41).
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