Genesis 2:8

verses 8-14 Figure of speech Parecbasis. App-6 .

garden. This garden may be additional to Genesis 1:11 , Genesis 1:12 ; Genesis 2:4 , Genesis 2:5 -. That creation concerns the "plants of the field" (1st occ). This may have been a special planting, and lost when the garden and Eden were lost. Note the three gardens: (1) Eden, death in sin; (2) Gethsemane, death for sin; (3) Sepulchre, death to sin.

eastward in Eden = "in Eden, eastward".

Eden. In the cuneiform texts = the plain of Babylonia, known in the Accado-Sumerian as edin = "the fertile plain", called by its inhabitants Edinu. In Hebrew. eden, Septuagint paradise. Occurs Genesis 2:8 , Genesis 2:10 , Genesis 2:15 ; Genesis 3:23 , Genesis 3:24 ; Genesis 4:16 . Isaiah 51:3 .Ezekiel 28:13 ; Ezekiel 31:9 , Ezekiel 31:16 , Ezekiel 31:18 , Ezekiel 31:18 ; Ezekiel 36:35 .Joel 2:3 .