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
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.
1 Corinthians 9:9
For it is written in the law of Moses, "Thou shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn." Doth God take thought for oxen?
Ear the ground
Genesis 45:6
For this is the second year of dearth in the land, and five more are behind in which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
Exodus 34:21
"Six days thou shalt work, and the seventh thou shalt rest: both from earing and reaping.
Deuteronomy 21:4
and let them bring her unto a valley where is neither earing nor sowing, and strike off her head there in the valley.
1 Samuel 8:12
and will make him captains of them over thousands and over fifties, and set them to ear his ground, and to gather in his harvest, and to make instruments of war and apparel for his chariots.