17 Bible Verses about Ploughmen

Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? Is he all day opening and breaking the clods of his land?

Give ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, when the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop new wine, and all the hills shall melt.

and every shrub of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for Jehovah Elohim had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.

or does he say it altogether for our sakes? For for our sakes it has been written, that the plougher should plough in hope, and he that treads out corn, in hope of partaking of it.

But Jesus said to him, No one having laid his hand on the plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.

Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in ploughing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

And he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was ploughing with twelve yokes before him, and he with the twelfth; and Elijah went over to him, and cast his mantle on him.

But the captain of the body-guard left of the poor of the land for vinedressers and husbandmen.

But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard left of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.

But the nation that bringeth its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serveth him, will I let remain still in its own land, saith Jehovah; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

And over them that worked in the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub.

and he will take them that he may appoint for himself captains over thousands, and captains over fifties, and that they may plough his ground, and reap his harvest, and make his instruments of war and instruments of his chariots.

And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.

But which of you is there who, having a bondman ploughing or shepherding, when he comes in out of the field, will say, Come and lie down immediately to table?

And he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for man acquired me as bondman from my youth.

Be ashamed, ye husbandmen; howl, ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley: because the harvest of the field hath perished.