Thematic Bible: Plowing
Thematic Bible
Agriculture » Operations in » Plowing
So Elijah departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, while he was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him and threw his mantle (coat) on him.
and a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were feeding beside them,
But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back [to the things left behind] is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Or does He speak entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake: The plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the harvest.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Plowing
and a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were feeding beside them,
Oxen » Used for » Plowing
So Elijah departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, while he was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him and threw his mantle (coat) on him.
and a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were feeding beside them,
Do horses run on rocks?
Do men plow rocks with oxen? [Of course not!]
Yet you have turned justice into poison
And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood (bitterness),
Plowing » The breaking up or tilling of the earth
For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,
“Plow your uncultivated ground [for a season],
And do not sow among thorns.
And do not sow among thorns.
Sow with a view to righteousness [that righteousness, like seed, may germinate];
Reap in accordance with mercy and lovingkindness.
Break up your uncultivated ground,
For it is time to seek and search diligently for the Lord [and to long for His blessing]
Until He comes to rain righteousness and His gift of salvation on you.
Plowing » Performed » With oxen
and a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were feeding beside them,
That first slaughter which Jonathan and his armor bearer made was about twenty men within about half a [plow] furrow in a plot of land [the area of which a yoke of oxen could plow in a day].
Plowing » Performed » Generally by servants
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks,
And foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.
Plowing » Illustrative » Of peace and prosperity
And He will judge between the nations,
And will mediate [disputes] for many peoples;
And they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not lift up the sword against nation,
And never again will they learn war.
And He will judge between many peoples
And render decisions for strong and distant nations.
Then they shall hammer their swords into plowshares
And their spears into pruning hooks [so that the implements of war may become the tools of agriculture];
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Nor shall they ever again train for war.
Plowing » Illustrative » Of a course of sin
“As I have seen, those who plow wickedness
And those who sow trouble and harm harvest it.
You have plowed and planted wickedness, you have reaped the [willful] injustice [of oppressors],
You have eaten the fruit of lies.
Because you have trusted in your own way and your chariots, and in your many warriors,
Plowing » Illustrative » Of the labor ministers
Or does He speak entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake: The plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the harvest.
Plowing » With an ox and an ass yoked together forbidden to the jews
“You shall not plow with an ox [a clean animal] and a donkey [an unclean animal] together.
Plowing » Followed by harrowing and sowing
Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continue to plow and harrow the ground after it is smooth? When he has leveled its surface, does he not cast abroad [the seed of] dill or fennel and scatter cummin [a seasoning], and put the wheat in rows, and barley in its intended place, and spelt [an inferior kind of wheat] as the border?
Plowing » Performed » Sometimes by the owner of the land himself
So Elijah departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, while he was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him and threw his mantle (coat) on him.
Plowing » Performed » During the cold winter season
The lazy man does not plow when the winter [planting] season arrives;
So he begs at the [next] harvest and has nothing [to reap].
Plowing » Illustrative » Of repentance and reformation
For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,
“Plow your uncultivated ground [for a season],
And do not sow among thorns.
And do not sow among thorns.
Plowing » Noah the supposed inventor of
He named him Noah, saying, “This one shall bring us rest and comfort from our work and from the [dreadful] toil of our hands because of the ground which the Lord cursed.”
Plowing » Illustrative » Of a severe course of affliction
Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to tread out the grain,
But I will come over her fair neck with a heavy yoke [for hard field work].
I will harness Ephraim;
Judah will plow and Jacob will harrow and rake for himself.
Plowing » Performed » In long and straight furrows
“The [enemies, like] plowers plowed on my back;
They made their furrows [of suffering] long [in Israel].”
Plowing » Illustrative » (attention and constancy required in,) of continued devotedness
But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back [to the things left behind] is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Plowing » Performed » By a plow
But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back [to the things left behind] is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Plowing » Difficulty of, on rocky ground
Do horses run on rocks?
Do men plow rocks with oxen? [Of course not!]
Yet you have turned justice into poison
And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood (bitterness),