Verse 5

I made gardens and parks for myself and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 2:8-9 : 8 The LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there He placed the man He had formed. 9 The LORD God caused every tree that is beautiful in appearance and good for food to grow out of the ground, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  • Song 4:12-5:1 : 12 A locked garden is my sister, my bride—an enclosed spring, a sealed fountain. 13 Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, henna with nard plants. 14 Nard and saffron, fragrant calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, along with the finest spices. 15 You are a spring of gardens, a well of fresh water, flowing streams from Lebanon. 16 Awaken, north wind, and come, south wind! Breathe on my garden so that its spices may flow. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choice fruits. 1 I have entered my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spices. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, and drink; be intoxicated with love.
  • Song 6:2 : 2 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to graze in the gardens and to gather lilies.
  • Jer 39:4 : 4 When Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all the soldiers saw this, they fled, leaving the city at night through the king’s garden by the gate between the two walls, and they fled toward the Arabah.
  • Luke 17:27-29 : 27 People were eating, drinking, marrying, and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, 29 But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.