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 when he treadeth out the corn.
1 Corinthians 9:9
For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
Ear the ground
Genesis 45:6
For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in which there shall neither be tillage nor harvest.
Exodus 34:21
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in time of plowing and in harvest thou shalt rest.
Deuteronomy 21:4
And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a rough valley, which is neither tilled nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley;
1 Samuel 8:12
And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to till his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.