Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon. It is the one which flows throughout the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
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10A river went out of Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became four rivers.
12The gold of that land is good. There are also bdellium and the onyx stone.
Cross References
Genesis 10:29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
1 Samuel 15:7Then Saul attacked the Amalekites, from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.
Job 28:1Surely there is a mine for silver, 1 a place where they refine gold. 1
Matthew Henry on Genesis 2:9-16
The Garden of Eden. ( b. c. 4004.) 8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. 11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the… Read the whole commentary →