Cross references
Genesis 2:8
And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.
Genesis 2:8 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 8 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 3:24 (8 votes) and Ezekiel 28:13 (8 votes). 14 other verses point back to it. It links with 6 other books, from Genesis 2 to Joel 2.
Which verses does Genesis 2:8 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Genesis 3:248 votes
So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.
- Ezekiel 28:138 votes
You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.
- Genesis 13:106 votes
And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
- Genesis 4:165 votes
So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
- 2 Kings 19:125 votes
Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
- Ezekiel 31:8–95 votes
The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty. I made it beautiful with its many branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God.’
- Joel 2:35 votes
Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland—surely nothing will escape them.
- Isaiah 51:34 votes
For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
- Ezekiel 31:163 votes
I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below.
- Ezekiel 27:232 votes
Haran, Canneh, and Eden traded with you, and so did the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad.
- Ezekiel 31:181 vote
Which verses point to Genesis 2:8?
The 10 strongest of 14.