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
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasing to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make wise, she took of its fruit, and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were good. And they took wives for themselves from all whom they chose.
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
The plain
Genesis 19:17
And it happened when they brought him outside, He said, Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, nor stay in all the plain. Escape to the mountain lest you be consumed.
Deuteronomy 34:3
and the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, to Zoar.
1 Kings 7:46
The king cast them in the plain of Jordan, in the thick soil of the ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
Psalm 107:34
a fruitful land to a salty desert, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
The garden
Genesis 2:9
And out of the ground Jehovah God caused to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. The tree of life also was in the middle of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Isaiah 51:3
For Jehovah shall comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places; and He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah. Joy and gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving and the voice of melody.
Ezekiel 28:13
You have been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the ruby, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the turquoise, and the emerald, and gold. The workmanship of your tambourines and of your flutes was prepared in you in the day that you were created.
Ezekiel 31:8
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him; the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches. Nor was any tree in the garden of God like him in his beauty.
Joel 2:3
A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. Yes, and nothing shall escape them.
General references
Genesis 19:25
And He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.