Places of the Bible

Eden

Mesopotamia (region of the Tigris and Euphrates) · Old Testament · 19 verses

Eden is the garden described in Genesis where God placed the first man and woman. The text associates it with a river that parted into four heads, including the Tigris and Euphrates. The name appears in Genesis, 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles and 4 more in the King James text.

About Eden

Eden is the garden described in Genesis where God placed the first man and woman. The text associates it with a river that parted into four heads, including the Tigris and Euphrates.

Its place in the story

Eden is the setting of creation, the naming of the animals, and the first human relationship with God. It is the place of the first command and the first disobedience, after which Adam and Eve were sent out and the way was guarded. It stands at the beginning of the biblical story as the picture of unbroken fellowship with God.

Eden in Scripture (KJV)

“And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.”
Genesis 2:8 (KJV)
“And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.”
Genesis 2:10 (KJV)
“And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.”
Genesis 2:15 (KJV)
“Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.”
Genesis 3:23 (KJV)
“So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.”
Genesis 3:24 (KJV)
“And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.”
Genesis 4:16 (KJV)
“Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?”
2 Kings 19:12 (KJV)
“Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:”
2 Chronicles 29:12 (KJV)

Eden is named 19 times in Scripture; 8 shown above.

Where it leads

The loss of Eden opens the whole story of God working to restore what was broken, a story the New Testament sees fulfilled in Christ, who is called the last Adam.

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Where is Eden in the Bible?

Eden is the garden described in Genesis where God placed the first man and woman. The text associates it with a river that parted into four heads, including the Tigris and Euphrates. The name appears in Genesis, 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles and 4 more in the King James text.

What happened at Eden?

Eden is the setting of creation, the naming of the animals, and the first human relationship with God. It is the place of the first command and the first disobedience, after which Adam and Eve were sent out and the way was guarded. It stands at the beginning of the biblical story as the picture of unbroken fellowship with God.

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