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 must not muzzle your ox when it is treading grain.
1 Corinthians 9:9
For it is written in the law of Moses, "Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain." God is not concerned here about oxen, is he?
Ear the ground
Genesis 45:6
For these past two years there has been famine in the land and for five more years there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.
Exodus 34:21
"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.
Deuteronomy 21:4
and bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, to a valley that is neither plowed nor sown. There at the wadi they are to break the heifer's neck.
1 Samuel 8:12
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.