Garden, natural

A place of leisure for growing flowers, fruit and vegetables.

General references to gardens

1 Kings 21:2; Ecclesiastes 2:5 See also Song of Solomon 4:12, Song of Solomon 5:1, Song of Solomon 6:2; Isaiah 5:7; Jeremiah 29:5; Lamentations 2:6; Amos 4:9, Amos 9:14MAT Amos 13:32; Luke 11:42, Luke 13:19

So Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to use as a vegetable garden, since it is next to my palace. I will give you a better vineyard in its place — or if you prefer, I will give you its value in silver.”

I made gardens and parks for myself, where I planted all kinds of fruit trees.

Gardens require irrigation

Deuteronomy 11:10; Isaiah 1:30 See also Numbers 24:6; Job 8:16; Isaiah 58:11; Jeremiah 31:12

For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.

For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.

Gardens attached to palaces

Esther 1:5–6 See also 2 Kings 21:18, 2 Kings 21:26; Nehemiah 3:15; Esther 7:7; Jeremiah 39:4

At the end of this time, in the garden court of the royal palace, the king held a seven-day feast for all the people in the citadel of Susa, from the least to the greatest. Hangings of white and blue linen were fastened with cords of fine white and purple material to silver rings on the marble pillars. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and other costly stones.

Idolatrous worship in gardens

Isaiah 65:3 See also Isaiah 1:29, Isaiah 66:17

to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,

Jesus Christ betrayed in a garden

Matthew 26:36 parallel Mark 14:32 Gethsemane was a garden.

Jesus Christ buried in a garden tomb

John 19:41–42