20 Bible Verses about Tilling The Soil

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Proverbs 28:19

He who tills his land will have plenty of food,
But he who follows empty pursuits will have poverty in plenty.

Genesis 3:23

therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 3:17-19

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;
Cursed is the ground because of you;
In toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.
“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you will eat the plants of the field;
By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread,
Till you return to the ground,
Because from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”

Isaiah 7:25

As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample.

Ezekiel 36:34

The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by.

2 Samuel 9:10

You and your sons and your servants shall cultivate the land for him, and you shall bring in the produce so that your master’s grandson may have food; nevertheless Mephibosheth your master’s grandson shall eat at my table regularly.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

After all, a king who cultivates the field is an advantage to the land.

Ezekiel 36:9

For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be cultivated and sown.

Micah 4:3

And He will judge between many peoples
And render decisions for mighty, distant nations.
Then they will hammer their swords into plowshares
And their spears into pruning hooks;
Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
And never again will they train for war.

Job 1:14

a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,

Job 39:10

“Can you bind the wild ox in a furrow with ropes,
Or will he harrow the valleys after you?

Isaiah 28:24

Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed?
Does he continually turn and harrow the ground?

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on rocks?
Or does one plow them with oxen?
Yet you have turned justice into poison
And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Genesis 4:12

When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth.”

Genesis 45:6

For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

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