Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

General references

Bible References

Causeth

Psalm 145:15
[The] eyes of all look hopefully to you, and you give them their food in due time,
Psalm 147:8
who covers [the] heavens with clouds, who provides rain for the earth, who causes grass to grow on the mountains.
Genesis 1:11
And God said, "Let the earth produce green plants [that will] bear seed--fruit trees bearing fruit {in which there is seed}--according to its kind, on the earth." And it was so.
Genesis 2:5
{before any plant of the field was} on earth, and [before] {any plant of the field} had sprung up, because Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no human being to cultivate the ground,
1 Kings 18:5
Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the wadis. Perhaps we may find green grass that we may keep horses and mules alive and that we might not lose any of the animals."
Jeremiah 14:5
For even [the] doe in the field gives birth and forsakes [her young], because there is no green growth.
Joel 2:22
Do not fear, wild animals of [the] field, because [the] pastures of [the] desert have put forth new green shoots, because [the] tree has produced its fruit, [the] fig tree and [the] vine have yielded their produce.

Herb

Genesis 1:29
And God said, "Look--I am giving to you every plant [that] bears seed which [is] on the face of the whole earth, and every kind of tree {that bears fruit}. They shall be yours as food."
Genesis 2:9
And Yahweh God caused to grow every tree [that] was pleasing to the sight and good for food. And the tree of life [was] in the midst of the garden, {along with} the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 3:18
And thorns and thistles shall sprout for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.
Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that lives shall be for you as food. As [I gave] the green plants to you, I have [now] given you everything.

That he

Psalm 136:25
[The one who] gives food to all flesh, for his loyal love [endures] forever.
Genesis 4:12
When you till the ground {it shall no longer yield its strength to you}. You shall be a wanderer and a fugitive on the earth."
Job 28:5
[As for the] earth, from it comes food, but underneath it, it is turned up as [by] fire.
1 Corinthians 3:7
So then, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who is causing [it] to grow.

General references

Genesis 1:30
And to every kind of animal of the earth and to every bird of heaven, and to everything that moves upon the earth in which [there is] life [I am giving] every green plant as food." And it was so.
1 Corinthians 15:38
But God gives to it a body just as he wishes, and to each one of the seeds its own body.