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Genesis 2:8. The Lord God planted — Or, had planted, namely, on the third day, when he created the fruit-tree yielding fruit; a garden — A place peculiarly pleasant, a paradise, separated, it seems, from the rest of the earth, and enclosed, but in what way, we are not informed; eastward — From the place where Moses wrote, and from the place where the Israelites afterward dwelt.
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Genesis 2:9. Every tree pleasant to the sight — That was...
- Ezekiel 31
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the...
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10 Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and...
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ח ויטע יהוה אלהים גן בעדן--מקדם וישם שם את האדם אשר יצר
- Nehemiah 2
And because the gracious hand of my God was on me, the king...
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And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and...
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See Genesis 1:1 ff for the passage quote with footnotes for...
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Gold is like the rest of God's gifts, a good thing or a bad...
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Here is a river the source of which is in Eden. It passes into the garden and waters it. "And thence it was parted and became four heads." This statement means either that the single stream was divided into four branches, or that there was a division of the river system of the district into four principal streams, whose sources were all to be found in it, though one only passed through the garden.
- The Garden of Eden Was God’s Garden, Planted by God himself.
- Talking Animals Might Have Been A thing.
- Whatever Tempted Eve Did Not Look Like A Snake as We Think of Them today.
- Adam Started Off as A Bachelor in The Garden.
- The Garden May Never Have Been Meant to Be Adam and Eve’s Forever Home.
- Where Was The Garden? We May Never Know (At Least Not in This Life).
At first glance, you might think, “That’s obvious. God created everything and everything belongs to Him.” But that doesn’t make it any less amazing. In fact, the way the Bible describes the origins of the Garden makes it even morefascinating. Pay attention to two verbs used repeatedly throughout the first chapter of Genesis: God creates the heavens...
“Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, ‘Did God really say, “You must not eat from any tree in the garden”?’” The Bible tells us that Eve answered the question and went on to have a brief conversation with the serpent, eventually succumbing to the serpent’s wily ways and eating of ...
You’ve undoubtedly seen plenty of illustrations showing Eve being tempted by a slithering snake. Is that an accurate image? In Genesis 3:14 God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.” But if the serpent b...
We don’t care how popular “The Bachelor” TV franchise is, nothing comes close to the story of the very first bachelor who found love in an exotic setting. God planted a special Garden and brought Adam there. After Adam had lived alone in the garden for a spell, God created Eve from one of Adam’s ribs and brought her to him. How long were Adam’s bac...
The Bible doesn’t directly address this idea, but we do know that Adam and Eve were given an assignment that went far beyond the borders of Eden: “God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on t...
Many people have tried to pinpoint the location of the Garden. Missionary David Livingstone believed it was located at the mouth of the Nile. Others look to Armenia or the Middle East. The Bible actually gives pretty good descriptions of landmarks around the Garden of Eden: “A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated ...
- God Calls and Commissions Ordinary Individuals. Nothing about Amos’ vocation as a shepherd and farmer would have marked him as one suited to carry the mantel of prophet.
- The Burden of a Divine Calling Cannot Be Easily Ignored. In receiving the call to prophesy to the northern kingdom, Amos could have chosen to stay home to tend his fig trees and care for his sheep.
- Worship Must Be on God’s Terms, Not Ours. Years before Amos arrived on the scene in Bethel, Jeroboam I, the first king of the northern kingdom after the split, feared that the northern tribes might grow nostalgic and seek to return to the house of David.
- God Is Sovereign Over the Nations. Though the focus of Amos’ ministry is understandably directed at the nation of Israel, the first two chapters of Amos include charges against surrounding nations and the enemies of Israel.
Summary. On the sixth day of Creation, God created ‘man’ in the form of Adam, moulding him from ‘the dust of the ground’ (Genesis 2:7), breathing the breath of life into Adam’s nostrils. God then planted a garden ‘eastward in Eden’ (2:8), containing both the tree of life and ‘the tree of knowledge of good and evil’ (2:9).
Amos, one of the twelve Minor Prophets in the Old Testament, was a shepherd and a fig tree farmer from Tekoa in Judah. He was called by God to prophesy during the 8th century BC, focusing on social justice, God's communication with His prophets, and a call to repentance. Amos' teachings remain relevant to modern-day Christians, emphasizing the importance of living out our faith through ...
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Jan 27, 2021 · God’s good creation, exemplified by the beautiful garden of Eden, began to groan. But it is at this moment that the stage is set for God’s grand plan of redemption—to restore that which had ...
