Ecclesiastes 2:5 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 2:5

5: I made gardens and parks, filling them with all kinds of fruit trees.

He has gone down to his garden, to his spice beds, to graze and to gather the lilies.

In those days before the flood, the people enjoyed banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat and the flood came to destroy them all.
"And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People went about their daily business--eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building--
until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

King Zedekiah and his royal guard saw the Babylonians in the city gate, so they fled when the darkness of night arrived. They went out through a gate between the two walls behind the king's garden and headed toward the Jordan Valley.

"You are like a private garden, my treasure, my bride! You are like a spring that no one else can drink from, a fountain of my own.
You are like a lovely orchard bearing precious fruit, with the rarest of perfumes:
nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, myrrh and aloes, perfume from every incense tree, and every other lovely spice.
You are a garden fountain, a well of living water, as refreshing as the streams from the Lebanon mountains."
Awake, north wind! Come, south wind! Blow on my garden and waft its lovely perfume to my lover. Let him come into his garden and eat its choicest fruits.

Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he placed the man he had created.
And the LORD God planted all sorts of trees in the garden--beautiful trees that produced delicious fruit. At the center of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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