What does the Bible say about garden?

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The Bible presents the garden as a place of God’s generous provision, human stewardship, fellowship, and promised restoration. In Genesis 2:8-15, God plants Eden, supplies every good tree, and entrusts Adam to cultivate and keep it. Though sin brings exile from that garden, the prophets promise that the Lord will comfort his people and make them like a watered garden, fruitful and joyful in him (Isaiah 51:3; 58:11; Jeremiah 31:12). Scripture also uses gardens to picture covenant love and the kingdom’s quiet growth (Song of Solomon 4:12-16; Luke 13:19). Christ’s burial in a garden and Revelation’s tree of life point to the final renewal God secures for his people through grace.

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  • Isaiah 58:11

    and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don't fail.

  • Genesis 2:15

    Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

  • Jeremiah 31:12

    They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

  • John 19:41

    Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.

  • Song of Solomon 4:12-16

    [12] A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; A locked up spring, A sealed fountain. [13] Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: Henna with spikenard plants, [14] Spikenard and saffron, Calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; Myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices, [15] A fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, Flowing streams from Lebanon. Beloved [16] Awake, north wind; and come, you south; Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, And taste his precious fruits. Lover

  • Luke 13:19

    It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky lodged in its branches."

  • Revelation 22:1-2

    [1] He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, [2] in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

  • Revelation 2:7

    He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

  • Genesis 2:8-9

    [8] Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. [9] Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

  • Isaiah 51:3

    For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

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