17 Bible Verses about Ploughmen
Most Relevant Verses
Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed?
Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?
Listen and hear my voice.
Pay attention and hear what I say.
Hear this! The days are coming—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
when the plowman will overtake the reaper
and the one who treads grapes,
the sower of seed.
The mountains will drip with sweet wine,
and all the hills will flow with it.
No shrub of the field had yet grown on the land, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.
Or isn’t He really saying it for us? Yes, this is written for us, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes should do so in hope of sharing the crop.
But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
“You are to labor six days but you must rest on the seventh day; you must even rest during plowing and harvesting times.
Elijah left there and found Elisha son of Shaphat as he was plowing. Twelve teams of oxen were in front of him, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah walked by him and threw his mantle over him.
But the commander of the guards left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and farmers.
But some of the poorest people of the land Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, left to be vinedressers and farmers.
But as for the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave it in its own land, and that nation will cultivate it and reside in it.” This is the Lord’s declaration.
Ezri son of Chelub was in charge of those who worked in the fields tilling the soil.
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.
“Which one of you having a slave tending sheep or plowing will say to him when he comes in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?
He will say: I am not a prophet; I work the land, for a man purchased me as a servant since my youth.
Be ashamed, you farmers,
wail, you vinedressers,
over the wheat and the barley,
because the harvest of the field has perished.
