Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
Ear the ground
Bible References
Oxen
Deuteronomy 25:4
You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.
1 Corinthians 9:9
For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the grain. Does God care for oxen?
Ear the ground
Genesis 45:6
For these two years has the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in the which there shall neither be plowing nor harvest.
Exodus 34:21
Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
Deuteronomy 21:4
And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with flowing water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley:
1 Samuel 8:12
And he will appoint himself captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his weapons of war, and equipment for his chariots.