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
Ain The eyes of all wait upon thee, and thou givest them their food in due season.
Psalm 147:8
Who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares the rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.
Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let the earth bring forth green grass, herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its nature, whose seed is in itself upon the earth; and it was so.
Genesis 2:5
and every plant of the field before it was in the earth and all the grass of the field before it grew, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and neither was there a man to till the ground.
1 Kings 18:5
And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go through the land to all the fountains of water and to all the brooks; peradventure we may find herbage to save the horses and mules alive that we not lose all the beasts.
Jeremiah 14:5
Even the hind calved in the field and forsook it, because there was no grass.
Joel 2:22
Be not afraid, ye animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness shall become green again, for the trees shall bear their fruit, the fig tree and the vine shall give their fruits.

Herb

Genesis 1:29
And God said, Behold, I have given you every grass bearing 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 made the LORD God to grow every tree that is desirable to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 3:18
thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the grass of the field;
Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; even as the green grass I have given you all things.

That he

Psalm 136:25
Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy endures for ever.
Genesis 4:12
when thou tillest the ground, from now on it shall not yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Job 28:5
Land out of which bread comes forth, and underneath it shall be as if it were converted in fire.
1 Corinthians 3:7
So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters, but God that gives the increase.

General references

Genesis 1:30
And to every beast of the earth and to every fowl of the air and to every thing that moves upon the earth, in which there is a living soul, I have given all green grass for food; and it was so.
1 Corinthians 15:38
but God gives it a body as it has pleased him, and to each seed its own body.