Bible Location
Meaning: pleasure; delight · 10 cross references
This Eden entry refers not to the Garden of Eden but to a historical region or district known in later prophetic and royal texts. It is important because it appears among places conquered by imperial powers and within the trade and geographic world of the prophets. First appears in 2 Kgs 19:12.1
AI summary: Readers often assume Eden always refers to the primal garden of Genesis, but this entry belongs to a different setting altogether. Its references place it among historical regions known to the Assyrian world and in lists connected with trade and conquest. That makes it important mainly as a reminder that familiar biblical names can recur in very different contexts. The cross references present this Eden as a later historical region, not as the garden of origins.1
One of the markets whence the merchants of Tyre obtained richly embroidered stuffs (Ezek. 27:23); the same, probably, as that mentioned in 2 Kings 19:12, and Isa. 37:12, as the name of a region conquered by the Assyrians. 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.