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A place of leisure for growing flowers, fruit and vegetables.

General references to gardens

1 Kings 21:2; Ecclesiastes 2:5 See also Songs 4:12; Songs 5:1; Songs 6:2; Isaiah 5:7; Jeremiah 29:5; Lamentations 2:6; Amos 4:9; Amos 9:14

References to garden plants:

Matthew 13:32; Luke 11:42; Luke 13:19

Gardens require irrigation

Deuteronomy 11:10; Isaiah 1:30 See also Numbers 24:6; Job 8:16; Isaiah 58:11; Jeremiah 31:12

Gardens attached to palaces

Esther 1:5-6 See also 2 Kings 21:18,26; Nehemiah 3:15; Esther 7:7; Jeremiah 39:4

Idolatrous worship in gardens

Isaiah 65:3 See also Isaiah 1:29; Isaiah 66:17

Jesus Christ betrayed in a garden

Matthew 26:36 pp Mark 14:32 Gethsemane was a garden.

Jesus Christ buried in a garden tomb

John 19:41-42

See also

4402  plants
4446  flowers
4450  fruit
4468  horticulture
4528  trees
4532  vegetables
4538  vineyard