Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
And beheld
The garden
General references
Bible References
And beheld
Genesis 3:6
Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves.
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.
The plain
Genesis 19:17
As soon as the angels got them outside, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Don’t look back and don’t stop anywhere on the plain! Run to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
Deuteronomy 34:3
the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar.
1 Kings 7:46
The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan.
Psalm 107:34 and fruitful land into salty wasteland,
because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.
The garden
Genesis 2:9
The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Isaiah 51:3 For the Lord will comfort Zion;
He will comfort all her waste places,
and He will make her wilderness like Eden,
and her desert like the garden of the Lord.
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
thanksgiving and melodious song.
He will comfort all her waste places,
and He will make her wilderness like Eden,
and her desert like the garden of the Lord.
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
thanksgiving and melodious song.
Ezekiel 28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God.
Every kind of precious stone covered you:
carnelian, topaz, and diamond,
beryl, onyx, and jasper,
sapphire, turquoise and emerald.
Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold;
they were prepared on the day you were created.
Every kind of precious stone covered you:
carnelian, topaz, and diamond,
beryl, onyx, and jasper,
sapphire,
Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold;
they were prepared on the day you were created.
Ezekiel 31:8 The cedars in God’s garden could not rival it;
the pine trees couldn’t compare with its branches,
nor could the plane trees match its boughs.
No tree in the garden of God
could compare with it in beauty.
the pine trees couldn’t compare with its branches,
nor could the plane trees match its boughs.
No tree in the garden of God
could compare with it in beauty.
Joel 2:3 A fire destroys in front of them,
and behind them a flame devours.
The land in front of them
is like the Garden of Eden,
but behind them,
it is like a desert wasteland;
there is no escape from them.
and behind them a flame devours.
The land in front of them
is like the Garden of Eden,
but behind them,
it is like a desert wasteland;
there is no escape from them.
General references
Genesis 19:25
He demolished these cities, the entire plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and whatever grew on the ground.