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 the woman saw that it was a good tree to eat of, and lusty unto the eyes, and a pleasant tree for to make wise. And took of the fruit of it and ate, and gave unto her husband also with her, and he ate.
Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took unto them wives, which they best liked among them all.
1 John 2:15
See that ye love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the father is not in him.
The plain
Genesis 19:17
When they had brought them out, they said, "Save thy life and look not behind thee, neither tarry thou in any place of the country, but save thyself in the mountain, lest thou perish."
Deuteronomy 34:3
and the south and the region of the plain of Jericho the city of date trees, even unto Zoar.
1 Kings 7:46
And in the plain of Jordan did the king cast them: even in the clay of the earth between Succoth and Zarethan.
Psalm 107:34
A fruitful land maketh he barren, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
1 John 2:15
See that ye love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the father is not in him.
The garden
Genesis 2:9
And the LORD God made to spring out of the earth, all manner trees beautiful to the sight and pleasant to eat; and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and also the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Isaiah 51:3
For the LORD hath compassion on Zion and hath compassion on all that is decayed therein, and will make her wilderness as paradise, and her desert as the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness shall be found therein, with thanksgiving and the voice of praise.
Ezekiel 28:13
Thou hast been in the pleasure garden of God; thou art decked with all manner of precious stones: with Ruby, Topaz, Crystal, Jacinth, Onyx, Jasper, Sapphire, Smaragdus, Carbuncle, and gold. Thy beauty and the holes that be in thee were set forth in the day of thy creation.
Ezekiel 31:8
no Cedar tree might hide him. In the pleasant garden of God, there was no fir tree like his branches, the plain trees were not like the boughs of him. All the trees in the garden of God might not be compared unto him in his beauty:
Joel 2:3
Before him shall be a consuming fire, and behind him a burning flame. The land shall be as a garden of pleasure before him, but behind him shall it be a very waste wilderness, and there is no man, that shall escape him.
General references
Genesis 19:25
and overthrew those cities and all the region, and all that dwelled in the cities, and that that grew upon the earth.