Ecclesiastes 5:9
It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.
Genesis 1:29-30
And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:
Genesis 3:17-19
And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.
1 Samuel 8:12-17
And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages.
1 Kings 4:7-23
And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the king and those of his house; every man was responsible for one month in the year.
1 Chronicles 27:26-31
Ezri, the son of Chelub, had authority over the field-workers and farmers;
Psalm 104:14-15
He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;
Psalm 115:16
The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.
Proverbs 13:23
There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.
Proverbs 27:23-27
Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;
Proverbs 28:19
By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.
Jeremiah 40:10-12
As for me, I will be living in Mizpah as your representative before the Chaldaeans who come to us: but you are to get in your wine and summer fruits and oil and put them in your vessels, and make living-places for yourselves in the towns which you have taken.