Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

General references

Bible References

Causeth

Psalm 145:15
The eyes of all wait for thee, and thou give them their food in due season.
Psalm 147:8
who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.
Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, [and] fruit trees bearing fruit according to their kind (in which is the seed of them) upon the earth. And it was so.
Genesis 2:5
And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up, for LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth. And there was not a man to till the ground,
1 Kings 18:5
And Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land, to all the fountains of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the beasts.
Jeremiah 14:5
Yea, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [it] because there is no grass.
Joel 2:22
Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness spring, for the tree bears its fruit, the fig tree and the vine yield their strength.

Herb

Genesis 1:29
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed. To you it shall be for food,
Genesis 2:9
And out of the ground LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, also the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 3:18
Also, thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to thee, and thou shall eat the herb of the field.
Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. As the green herb, I have given you all.

That he

Psalm 136:25
who gives food to all flesh, for his loving kindness [is] forever.
Genesis 4:12
When thou till the ground, it shall not henceforth yield to thee its strength. A fugitive and a wanderer thou shall be on the earth.
Job 28:5
As for the earth, out of it comes bread, and underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
1 Corinthians 3:7
So then neither is he who plants anything, nor he who waters, but God who causes growth.

General references

Genesis 1:30
and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creeps upon the earth in which there is life, for food--every green herb. And it was so.
1 Corinthians 15:38
But God gives it a body as he wills, and to each of the seeds its own body.