<P> In Ezekiel 28: 12--19 the prophet Ezekiel the "son of man" sets down God's word against the king of Tyre: the king was the "seal of perfection", adorned with precious stones from the day of his creation, placed by God in the garden of Eden on the holy mountain as a guardian cherub . But the king sinned through wickedness and violence, and so he was driven out of the garden and thrown to the earth, where now he is consumed by God's fire: "All the nations who knew you are appalled at you, you have come to a horrible end and will be no more ." (v. 19). </P> <P> According to Terje Stordalen, the Eden in Ezekiel appears to be located in Lebanon . "(I) t appears that the Lebanon is an alternative placement in Phoenician myth (as in Ez 28, 13, III. 48) of the Garden of Eden", and there are connections between paradise, the garden of Eden and the forests of Lebanon (possibly used symbolically) within prophetic writings . Edward Lipinski and Peter Kyle McCarter have suggested that the Garden of the gods (Sumerian paradise), the oldest Sumerian version of the Garden of Eden, relates to a mountain sanctuary in the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon ranges . </P> <P> Although the Garden of Eden is considered to be mythological by most scholars, there have been other suggestions for its location: for example, at the head of the Persian Gulf, in southern Mesopotamia (now Iraq) where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers run into the sea; in Iranian Azerbaijan, and in the vicinity of Tabriz, and in the Armenian Highlands or Armenian Plateau . </P> <P> According to the Bible, the location of Eden is described in the Book of Genesis, chapter 2, verses 10--14: </P>

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