CHILDREN OF EDEN

e'-d'-n (bene `edhen): In 2 Kings 19:12 Isaiah 37:12 "the children of Eden that were in Telassar" are mentioned in connection with "Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph" as having been destroyed by the Assyrians who were before the time of Sennacherib. The expression, "the children of Eden that were in Telassar," undoubtedly referred to a tribe which inhabited a region of which Telassar was the center. Telassar means "the hill of Asshur" and, according to Schrader, it was a name that might have been given to any place where a temple had been built to Asshur. Inasmuch as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph were in Mesopotamia it would seem probable that "the children of Eden that were in Telassar" belonged to the same locality. The "children of Eden" is quite probably to be identified with the Bit `Adini of the inscriptions and this referred to a district on the middle Euphrates. According to the inscriptions Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and Bit `Adini were destroyed by Sennacherib's forefathers, and this is in accord with the account in 2 Kings and Isaiah.

The "Eden" of Ezekiel 27:23 is usually taken as the name of a place in Mesopotamia with which Tyre had commercial relations, and probably belongs to the region of "the chilrden of Eden," discussed above.

Some writers think the "Beth-eden" of Amos 1:5 the Revised Version, margin (the American Standard Revised Version "Aven") is to be identified with the Bit `Adini of the inscriptions and hence, with "the children of Eden," but this is doubtful. This was perhaps in Syria in the neighborhood of Damascus.

A. W. Fortune

Deliverance from Assyria
... Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as
Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar? ...
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The Beginning of Things. Away Back in the Beginning of Things God ...
... his children may rest and worship. Adam and Eve were very happy, for they had never
done anything wrong. God gave them a beautiful wide garden, called Eden, ...
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Heaven's Nurse Children
... Like the golden-sanded river which had its rise in Eden, electing love ... according
to the inspired apostle, "predestinated unto the adoption of children by Jesus ...
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They Shall be Called the Children of God
... Compare the children of God with Adam in a state of innocence. ... He was placed
in the garden of Eden which was a paradise of pleasure. ...
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The Coming of a Deliverer
... given to Adam and Eve in the sentence pronounced upon the serpent in Eden when the ...
the power of Christ to save, they might become once more the children of God ...
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Jesus and Abraham.
... in Eden was a case of attempted murder, and has resulted in all the murders of earth,
and the spiritual death of myriads. They (the Jews) were the children of ...
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God's Good Gifts to Man
The Children's Bible. ... And Jehovah planted a garden in Eden, far in the East; and
out of the ground he made grow all kinds of trees that are pleasant to look at ...
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Visions of Future Glory
... interest, are these delineations of the things to come"events for which, since our
first parents turned their steps from Eden, God's children have watched ...
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Why Jesus came to this World
... Then he will turn them out of Eden, and they and their children will be
my servants for ever, and I shall be king of the world.'. ...
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On Fruit Bearing.
... the church which the Lord will comfort and whose wilderness will be made an Eden. ...
The children of Israel were the church of God in the old dispensation, and he ...
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