5I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
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They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. …
A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. …
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)Solomon here, in pursuit of the summum bonum — the felicity of man, adjourns out of his study, his library, his elaboratory, his council-chamber, where he had in vain sought for it, into the park and the playhouse, his garden and his summer-house; he exchanges the company of the philosophers and grave senators for that of the wits and gallants, and the beaux-esprits, of his court, to try if he cou…
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