Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
Ear the ground
Bible References
Oxen
Deuteronomy 25:4
“Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain.
1 Corinthians 9:9
For it is written in the law of Moses, Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain. Is God really concerned with oxen?
Ear the ground
Genesis 45:6
For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
Exodus 34:21
“You are to labor six days but you must rest on the seventh day; you must even rest during plowing and harvesting times.
Deuteronomy 21:4
The elders of that city will bring the cow down to a continually flowing stream, to a place not tilled or sown, and they will break its neck there by the stream.
1 Samuel 8:12
He can appoint them for his use as commanders of thousands or commanders of fifties, to plow his ground or reap his harvest, or to make his weapons of war or the equipment for his chariots.