17 Bible Verses about Ploughmen

Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?

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"Be sure of this, the time is coming," says the Lord, "when the plowman will catch up to the reaper and the one who stomps the grapes will overtake the planter. Juice will run down the slopes, it will flow down all the hillsides.

Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

Or is he not surely speaking for our benefit? It was written for us, because the one plowing and threshing ought to work in hope of enjoying the harvest.

Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."

"On six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; even at the time of plowing and of harvest you are to rest.

Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen; he was near the twelfth pair. Elijah passed by him and threw his robe over him.

But he left behind some of the poor of the land and gave them fields and vineyards.

But he left behind some of the poor and gave them fields and vineyards.

Things will go better for the nation that submits to the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon and is subject to him. I will leave that nation in its native land. Its people can continue to farm it and live in it. I, the Lord, affirm it!"'"

Ezri son of Kelub was in charge of the field workers who farmed the land.

He will appoint for himself leaders of thousands and leaders of fifties, as well as those who plow his ground, reap his harvest, and make his weapons of war and his chariot equipment.

The workers of the city from all the tribes of Israel will cultivate it.

"Would any one of you say to your slave who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, 'Come at once and sit down for a meal'?

Instead he will say, 'I am no prophet -- indeed, I am a farmer, for a man has made me his indentured servant since my youth.'

Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.