Places of the Bible
Eden
Region · Original location most likely unidentifiable due to the global flood · location unknown
What happened here
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.
- Creation of Adam and Eve · 4003 BC
- The Fall · 4003 BC
- Lifetime of Adam · 4003 BC
- Cain kills Abel · 3874 BC
- God curses Cain · 3874 BC
- Birth of Seth · 3873 BC
- Death of Adam · 3074 BC
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Eden, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- Prophecies of Joel · 819 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Isaiah · 758 BC · 2 verses
- Reign of Hezekiah · 725 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Ezekiel · 592 BC · 6 verses
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
The garden in which our first parents dewlt (Gen. 2:8-17). No geographical question has been so much discussed as that bearing on its site. It has been placed in Armenia, in the region west of the Caspian Sea, in Media, near Damascus, in Palestine, in Southern Arabia, and in Babylonia. The site must undoubtedly be sought for somewhere along the course of the great streams the Tigris and the Euphrates of Western Asia, in “the land of Shinar” or Babylonia. The region from about lat. 33 degrees 30’ to lat. 31 degrees, which is a very rich and fertile tract, has been by the most competent authorities agreed on as the probable site of Eden. “It is a region where streams abound, where they divide and re-unite, where alone in the Mesopotamian tract can be found the phenomenon of a single river parting into four arms, each of which is or has been a river of consequence.”
Among almost all nations there are traditions of the primitive innocence of our race in the garden of Eden. This was the “golden age” to which the Greeks looked back. Men then lived a “life free from care, and without labour and sorrow. Old age was unknown; the body never lost its vigour; existence was a perpetual feast without a taint of evil. The earth brought forth spontaneously all things that were good in profuse abundance.”
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 15 verses
- Genesis
- 2:8, 2:10, 2:15, 3:23, 3:24
- 2 Kings
- 19:12
- Isaiah
- 37:12, 51:3
- Ezekiel
- 27:23, 28:13, 31:9, 31:16, 31:18, 36:35
- Joel
- 2:3
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.