Dictionary of Bible Themes  »  4000 Creation  »  4400 Vegetation and food  »  4468 horticulture

The art of garden cultivation, first practised in the Garden of Eden.

Horticulture in the Garden of Eden

The man and woman tended the garden

Genesis 2:15-23

The fall brought about a change in human priorities from horticulture to agriculture

Genesis 3:17-19 See also Genesis 4:2

Egyptian agriculture is likened to horticulture

Deuteronomy 11:10-11

Horticulture is totally dependent on good irrigation

Isaiah 58:11 See also Genesis 2:4-14; Genesis 13:10; Numbers 24:5-7; Job 8:16; Songs 4:12,15; Isaiah 51:3; Jeremiah 31:12

Those who practised horticulture

Kings

Ecclesiastes 2:5-6 See also 1 Kings 21:2; 2 Kings 21:18,26; Kings 25:4 pp Jeremiah 39:4 pp Jeremiah 52:7; Nehemiah 3:15; Esther 1:5-6; Esther 7:7-8; Songs 8:13

Common people

Jeremiah 29:28 See also Jeremiah 29:1-7; John 19:41

Gardeners

John 20:15 See also Isaiah 5:7; John 15:1

Kinds of horticulture

Vegetable gardens

1 Kings 21:2

Fruit gardens

Amos 9:14 See also Genesis 2:16-17; Genesis 3:1-3

Herb gardens

Luke 11:42 See also Songs 6:2; Matthew 13:31-32 pp Mark 4:31-32 pp Luke 13:19

Horticultural diseases and pestilence

Amos 4:9

See also

4239  garden
4406  agriculture
4450  fruit
4466  herbs and spices
4528  trees
4532  vegetables
4538  vineyard
4540  weeds
6154  fall, the