Eden (Easton)

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Delight. The garden in which our first parents dewlt (Genesis 2:8-17 ). No geographical question has been so much discussed as that bearing on its site. It has been placed in Armenia, in the region west of the Caspian Sea, in Media, near Damascus, in Palestine, in Southern Arabia, and in Babylonia."> StudyL ı ght .org Plug in, Turn on and Be En light ened! Not Yet a Member? Click to Sign Up Now! --> --> Bible Study Tools Lang uage Tools Study Lib rary Hist orical Writings Pas toral Resources Per sonal Resources Site Resources Lectionary Calendar Saturday, June 6th, 2026 the Week of Proper 4 / Ordinary 9 video advertismenet advertisement advertisement advertisement Attention! Take your personal ministry to the Next Level by helping StudyLight build churches and supporting pastors in Uganda. Click here to join the effort! Home » Bible Dictionaries » Easton's Bible Dictionary » Letter E Bible Dictionaries Eden Easton's Bible Dictionary Search for… Enter query below: or A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z Prev Entry Edar Next Entry Eder Resource Toolbox Print Article Additional Links Concordances Nave Topical Bible Eden Thompson Chain Reference Garden of Eden Eden Dictionaries American Tract Society Eden Chabad Knowledge Base Garden of Eden Gan Eden Easton's Bible Dictionary Eden Fausset Bible Dictionary Eden Holman Bible Dictionary Eden Beth-Eden Hitchcock Bible Names Eden Hastings' BibleDictionary Eden, House of Eden, Garden of Eden, Children of (only first 3 shown) King James Dictionary Eden Morrish Bible Dictionary Eden (2) Eden 1910 New Catholic Dictionary Garden of Eden Eden, Garden of Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary Eden People's Bible Dictionary Eden Smith Bible Dictionary Eden Wilson's Bible Types Eden Webster Dictionary Edenized Edenic Eden Watson's Theological Dictionary Eden Encyclopedias 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica Eden Eden Phillpotts George Eden, Earl of Auckland (only first 3 shown) Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia Garden of Eden Guard at Eden's Entrance International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Beth-Eden Children of Eden Eden (only first 3 shown) Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia Eden McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia Beth-Eden Brown, Charles Eden Burroughs, Eden, D.D. (only first 3 shown) The Nuttall Encyclopedia Auckland, George Eden, Lord Auckland, William Eden, Lord Eden The Jewish Encyclopedia Eden, Garden of Gan 'eden Lexicons בֵּית עֶדֶן עֵדֶן , עֶדְנָה (only first 3 shown) Delight. The garden in which our first parents dewlt ( Genesis 2:8-17 ). No geographical question has been so much discussed as that bearing on its site. It has been placed in Armenia, in the region west of the Caspian Sea, in Media, near Damascus, in Palestine, in Southern Arabia, and in Babylonia. The site must undoubtedly be sought for somewhere along the course of the great streams the Tigris and the Euphrates of Western Asia, in "the land of Shinar" or Babylonia. The region from about lat. 33 degrees 30' to lat. 31 degrees, which is a very rich and fertile tract, has been by the most competent authorities agreed on as the probable site of Eden. "It is a region where streams abound, where they divide and re-unite, where alone in the Mesopotamian tract can be found the phenomenon of a single river parting into four arms, each of which is or has been a river of consequence." Among almost all nations there are traditions of the primitive innocence of our race in the garden of Eden. This was the "golden age" to which the Greeks looked back. Men then lived a "life free from care, and without labour and sorrow. Old age was unknown; the body never lost its vigour; existence was a perpetual feast without a taint of evil. The earth brought forth spontaneously all things that were good in profuse abundance." One of the markets whence the merchants of Tyre obtained richly embroidered stuffs ( Ezekiel 27:23 ); the same, probably, as that mentioned in 2 Kings 19:12 , and Isaiah 37:12 , as the name of a region conquered by the Assyrians. Son of Joah, and one of the Levites who assisted in reforming the public worship of the sanctuary in the time of Hezekiah ( 2 Chronicles 29:12 ).

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