Gen 2:10-14, Ezr 8:21, 31, Eze 1:1 | TSK | STEP | a river. Eden.Eden denotes pleasure or delight; but was certainly the name of a place, and was, most probably, situated in Armenia, near the sources of the great rivers Euphrates, Tigris, Phasis, and Araxes.

Genesis 2:10-14

a river.

Eden.Eden denotes pleasure or delight; but was certainly the name of a place, and was, most probably, situated in Armenia, near the sources of the great rivers Euphrates, Tigris, Phasis, and Araxes.

Havilah.

10:7,29; 25:18; 1Sa 15:7 Bdellium is a transparent aromatic gum. The onyx is a precious stone, so called from a Greek word signifying a man's nail, to the colour of which it nearly approaches.

Nu 11:7

onyx.

Ex 28:20; 39:13; Job 28:16; Eze 28:13

Gihon.The Araxes, which runs into the Caspian sea.

Ethiopia. Heb. Cush.The country of the ancient Cussaei.

10:6; Isa 11:11

Hiddekel.

Da 10:4

The Tigris. toward the east of. or, eastward to.

10:11,22; 25:18

Euphrates.

15:18; De 1:7; 11:24; Re 9:14

Ezra 8:21

I proclaimed.

Jud 20:26; 1Sa 7:6; 2Ch 20:3; Joe 1:14; 2:12-18; Jon 3:5

afflict ourselves.

Le 16:29,31; 23:29; Isa 58:3,5; Jer 31:8,9; 50:4,5

to seek.

Ps 5:8; 107:2-8; 143:8-10; Pr 3:6; Isa 30:21; 35:8; 42:16; 49:10

Jer 10:23

for our little ones.

Nu 14:3,31; Ps 8:2; Mr 10:13-16; Ac 2:39

Ezra 8:31

the river of Ahava.

15,21

the hand.

22; 7:9,28; Job 5:19-24; Ps 91:9-14; Isa 41:10-14; Ac 25:3; 26:22

and he delivered.Ezra and his company had now entered upon a journey of several hundred miles through the desert, which they were nearly four months in completing, encumbered with families and possessions, and carrying large treasures with them, which would invite the attempts of the Arabian hordes, and others, that infested that neighbourhood; yet, having declared to the king, "that the hand of God was upon all them for good that seek him, and that his power and wrath were against all them that forsook him," (ver. 22,) he determined to travel without a guard, except that of the Almighty, being ashamed to ask any other, after his former avowed confidence in Him! Having, therefore, humbled themselves before the Lord, and besought his guidance and protection, he was intreated by them, their enemies were restrained or disabled, and they arrived unmolested at Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 1:1

1 The time of Ezekiel's prophecy at Chebar.

4 His vision of four cherubims;

15 of the four wheels;

26 and of the glory of God.

in the thirtieth.

Nu 4:3; Lu 3:23

as I.

Ec 9:1,2; Jer 24:5-7

captives. Heb. captivity. by the river.

3; 3:15,23; 10:15,20,22; 43:3

Chebar.Chebar, called now Khabour, is a river of Mesopotamia, which taking its rise in the Mysian mountains, falls into the Euphrates near Carchemish, or Circesioum, now Karkisia, about 35 degrees 20' N. lat. and 40 degrees 25' E. long.

the heavens.

Mt 3:16; Lu 3:21; Joh 1:51; Ac 7:56; 10:11; Re 4:1; 19:11

I saw.

8:3; 11:24; Ge 15:1; 46:2; Nu 12:6; Isa 1:1; Da 8:1,2; Ho 12:10

Joe 2:28; Mt 17:9; Ac 9:10-12; 10:3; 2Co 12:1