Eden

Garden mentioned in 13 verses of the Bible, most often in Genesis.

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Where it appears

Genesis (6), Ezekiel (5), Isaiah (1), Joel (1)

Key verses

• Genesis 2:8 first mention — And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
• Genesis 2:15 — And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
• Genesis 3:23 — Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
• Genesis 3:24 — So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
• Genesis 4:16 — And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
• Isaiah 51:3 — For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
• Ezekiel 28:13 — Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
• Ezekiel 31:9 — I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
• Ezekiel 31:16 — I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
• Ezekiel 31:18 — To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
• Ezekiel 36:35 — And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
• Joel 2:3 — A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

Bible Geocoding Data by OpenBible.info (https://www.openbible.info/geo/), CC BY 4.0. OpenBible.info rates this identification as uncertain; scholars propose other sites. Map: Natural Earth (public domain). Verse text: King James Version.