Dict: easton - Gardens

Gardens @ mentioned in Scripture, of Eden kjv@Genesis:2:8-9); Ahab's garden of herbs (kjvKings:21:2); the royal garden ( kjv@2Kings:21:18); the royal garden at Susa kjv@Esther:1:5); the garden of Joseph of Arimathea kjv@John:19:41); of Gethsemane kjv@John:18:1). The "king's garden" mentioned kjv@2Kings:25:4, kjv@Nehemiah:3:15, was near the Pool of Siloam. Gardens were surrounded by hedges of thorns kjv@Isaiah:5:5) or by walls of stone kjv@Proverbs:24:31). "Watch-towers" or "lodges" were also built in them kjv@Isaiah:1:8; kjv@Mark:12:1), in which their keepers sat. On account of their retirement they were frequently used as places for secret prayer and communion with God kjv@Genesis:24:63; kjv@Matthew:26:30-36; kjv@John:1:48 kjv@John:18:1-2). The dead were sometimes buried in gardens kjv@Genesis:23:19-20; kjv@2Kings:21:18 kjv@2Kings:21:26 kjv@1Samuel:25:1; kjv@Mark:15:46; kjv@John:19:41). (
See PARADISE.)