The garden, spices, and gathering imagery of Song 4 returns when the beloved goes down into his garden among the beds of spices and gathers lilies in Song 6.

Song 4 gathers Eden-like garden, fruit, spring, living-water, and stream imagery that plausibly resonates with Genesis 2’s planted garden and life-giving river. The imagery is substantial, but the Song never names Eden, so deliberate allusion remains probable rather than certain.

Song 4 describes the beloved as a sealed spring and fountain in an erotic context; Proverbs 5 uses cistern, fountain, and flowing-water imagery for exclusive marital sexuality.

Song’s garden and living-water imagery participates in a broad biblical garden-and-water trajectory that begins in Genesis and reaches the river of life and tree of life in Revelation 22.

The lovers’ green bed and cedar/fir “house” in Song 1 anticipates the fuller garden-space imagery of Song 4, where intimacy is again imagined through living, fragrant creation.