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 dost not muzzle an ox in its threshing.
1 Corinthians 9:9
for in the law of Moses it hath been written, 'thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn;' for the oxen doth God care?
Ear the ground
Genesis 45:6
Because these two years the famine is in the heart of the land, and yet are five years, in which there is neither ploughing nor harvest;
Exodus 34:21
'Six days thou dost work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest; in ploughing-time and in harvest thou dost rest.
Deuteronomy 21:4
and the elders of that city have brought down the heifer unto a hard valley, which is not tilled nor sown, and have beheaded there the heifer in the valley.
1 Samuel 8:12
also to appoint for himself heads of thousands, and heads of fifties; also to plow his plowing, and to reap his reaping; and to make instruments of his war, and instruments of his charioteer.