Thematic Bible: Agriculture or husbandry
Thematic Bible
Agriculture or husbandry » Often performed by hirelings
Since he had many cattle both in the Judean foothills and the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many wells. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Diligence in, abundantly recompensed
but whoever chases fantasies lacks sense.
but without justice, it is swept away.
will have plenty of food,
but whoever chases fantasies
will have his fill of poverty.
For ground that has drunk the rain that has often fallen on it and that produces vegetation useful to those it is cultivated for receives a blessing from God.
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The promises of God's blessings on
I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will bless your descendants, and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil—the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks, in the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you.
I will provide rain for your land in season, the early and late rains, and you will harvest your grain, new wine, and oil. I will provide grass in your fields for your livestock. You will eat and be satisfied.
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, often blasted because of sin
only six gallons,
and 10 bushels
only one bushel.
every place where there were 1,000 vines,
worth 1,000 pieces of silver,
will become thorns and briers.
They have exhausted themselves but have no profit.
Be put to shame by your harvests
because of the Lord’s burning anger.
The fields are destroyed; the land grieves; indeed, the grain is destroyed; the new wine is dried up; and the olive oil fails. Be ashamed, you farmers, wail, you vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
Agriculture or husbandry » The jews loved and followed
Elijah left there and found Elisha son of Shaphat as he was plowing. Twelve teams of oxen were in front of him, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah walked by him and threw his mantle over him.
The Angel of the Lord came, and He sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the wine vat in order to hide it from the Midianites.
Since he had many cattle both in the Judean foothills and the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many wells. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Sowing
and the one who looks at the clouds will not reap.
beside abundant waters;
they let ox and donkey range freely.
Then He told them many things in parables, saying: “Consider the sower who went out to sow.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Planting
she plants a vineyard with her earnings.
or he takes a cypress or an oak.
He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest.
He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
on the mountains of Samaria;
the planters will plant and will enjoy the fruit.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Watering
For the land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated by hand as in a vegetable garden.
I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. Now the one who plants and the one who waters are equal, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Pruning
You may sow your field for six years, and you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce for six years.
It will not be pruned or weeded;
thorns and briers will grow up.
I will also give orders to the clouds
that rain should not fall on it.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Diligence
and at evening do not let your hand rest,
because you don’t know which will succeed,
whether one or the other,
or if both of them will be equally good.
Know well the condition of your flock, and pay attention to your herds, for wealth is not forever; not even a crown lasts for all time. When hay is removed and new growth appears and the grain from the hills is gathered in, read more.
lambs will provide your clothing, and goats, the price of a field; there will be enough goat's milk for your food- food for your household and nourishment for your servants.
lambs will provide your clothing, and goats, the price of a field; there will be enough goat's milk for your food- food for your household and nourishment for your servants.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The sickle
“You are to count seven weeks, counting the weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.
When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to move landmarks
“You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, established at the start in the inheritance you will receive in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
that your fathers set up.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Digging
It will not be pruned or weeded;
thorns and briers will grow up.
I will also give orders to the clouds
that rain should not fall on it.
Agriculture or husbandry » Soil of canaan suited to
Lot looked out and saw that the entire Jordan Valley as far as Zoar was well watered everywhere like the Lord’s garden and the land of Egypt. This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams of water, springs, and deep water sources, flowing in both valleys and hills; a land of wheat, barley, vines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey; a land where you will eat food without shortage, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you will mine copper.
Agriculture or husbandry » War destructive to
with you I will smash the farmer and his ox-team.
With you I will smash governors and officials.
as well as him who wields the sickle at harvest time.
Because of the oppressor’s sword,
each will turn to his own people,
each will flee to his own land.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Threshing
The Angel of the Lord came, and He sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the wine vat in order to hide it from the Midianites.
“Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Grafting
Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them, and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree, do not brag that you are better than those branches. But if you do brag-you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you. Then you will say, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in."
For if you were cut off from your native wild olive and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these—the natural branches—be grafted into their own olive tree?
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The cart
“Now then, prepare one new cart and two milk cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.
Certainly black cumin is not threshed with a threshing board, and a cart wheel is not rolled over the cumin. But black cumin is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod. Bread grain is crushed, but is not threshed endlessly. Though the wheel of [the farmer's] cart rumbles, his horses do not crush it.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Storing in barns
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The mattock
So all the Israelites went to the Philistines to sharpen their plows, mattocks, axes, and sickles.
that were once tilled with a hoe,
for fear of the thorns and briers.
Those hills will be places for oxen to graze
and for sheep to trample.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Manuring
as straw is trampled in a dung pile.
"Now, salt is good, but if salt should lose its taste, how will it be made salty? It isn't fit for the soil or for the manure pile; they throw it out. Anyone who has ears to hear should listen!"
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Binding
There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the field. Suddenly my sheaf stood up, and your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.”
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, exported
and Solomon provided Hiram with 100,000 bushels of wheat as food for his household and 110,000 gallons of oil from crushed olives. Solomon did this for Hiram year after year.
Judah and the land of Israel were your merchants. They exchanged wheat from Minnith, meal, honey, oil, and balm, for your goods.
Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Laborers
Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The fan
His winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn. But the chaff He will burn up with fire that never goes out.”
The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder scattered with winnowing shovel and fork.
Agriculture or husbandry » The labor of, supposed to be lessened by noah
Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard.
And he named him Noah, saying, “This one will bring us relief from the agonizing labor of our hands, caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.”
Agriculture or husbandry » Peace favorable to
Judah and all its cities will live in it together—also farmers and those who move with the flocks—
and provide arbitration for many peoples.
They will turn their swords into plows
and their spears into pruning knives.
Nations will not take up the sword against other nations,
and they will never again train for war.
Agriculture or husbandry » Illustrative of the » Culture of the heart
For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem:
Break up the unplowed ground;
do not sow among the thorns.
do not sow among the thorns.
and reap faithful love;
break up your unplowed ground.
It is time to seek the Lord
until He comes
on you like the rain.
Agriculture or husbandry » Patriarchs engaged in
Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard.
Then she also gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd of flocks, but Cain worked the ground.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Gleaning
“When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
So Ruth left and entered the field to gather grain behind the harvesters. She happened to be in the portion of land belonging to Boaz, who was from Elimelech’s family.
Agriculture or husbandry » The providence of God to be acknowledged in the produce of
‘Let’s fear the Lord our God,
who gives the rain,
who guarantees to us the fixed weeks of the harvest.’
that it is I who gave her the grain,
the new wine, and the oil.
I lavished silver and gold on her,
which they used for Baal.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Harrowing
Will it plow the valleys behind you?
Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?
Agriculture or husbandry » Grief occasioned by the failure of the fruits of
wail, you vinedressers,
over the wheat and the barley,
because the harvest of the field has perished.
Therefore Yahweh, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: There will be wailing in all the public squares; they will cry out in anguish in all the streets. The farmer will be called on to mourn, and professional mournersto wail. There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass among you. The Lord has spoken.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The pruning-hook
and the blossom becomes a ripening grape,
He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife,
and tear away and remove the branches.
and your pruning knives into spears.
Let even the weakling say, “I am a warrior.”
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Winnowing
Now isn’t Boaz our relative? Haven’t you been working with his female servants? This evening he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
His winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn. But the chaff He will burn up with fire that never goes out.”
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Hedging
and planted it with the finest vines.
He built a tower in the middle of it
and even dug out a winepress there.
He expected
but it yielded worthless grapes.
what I am about to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge,
and it will be consumed;
I will tear down its wall,
and it will be trampled.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Mowing
The Lord God showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the time the spring crop first began to sprout—after the cutting of the king’s hay.
Agriculture or husbandry » Climate of canaan favorable to
For the land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated by hand as in a vegetable garden. But the land you are entering to possess is a land of mountains and valleys, watered by rain from the sky.
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The rights of redemption
"The land is not to be permanently sold because it is Mine, and you are only foreigners and temporary residents on My land. You are to allow the redemption of any land you occupy. If your brother becomes destitute and sells part of his property, his nearest relative may come and redeem what his brother has sold. read more.
If a man has no family redeemer, but he prospers and obtains enough to redeem his land, he may calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man he sold it to, and return to his property. But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in the possession of its purchaser until the Year of Jubilee. It is to be released at the Jubilee, so that he may return to his property.
If a man has no family redeemer, but he prospers and obtains enough to redeem his land, he may calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man he sold it to, and return to his property. But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in the possession of its purchaser until the Year of Jubilee. It is to be released at the Jubilee, so that he may return to his property.
Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Husbandmen
Since he had many cattle both in the Judean foothills and the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many wells. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to cut down crops of another
When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
Agriculture or husbandry » Illustrative of the » Culture of the church
For we are God’s coworkers. You are God’s field, God’s building.
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » The ass
Do not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to covet the fields of another
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » Oxen
“Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain.
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, given as rent for land
"Listen to another parable: There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it to tenant farmers and went away. When the grape harvest drew near, he sent his slaves to the farmers to collect his fruit.
Agriculture or husbandry » Contributes to the support of all
Agriculture or husbandry » Not to be engaged in during the sabbatical year
"Sow your land for six years and gather its produce. But during the seventh year you are to let it rest and leave it uncultivated, so that the poor among your people may eat [from it] and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.
Agriculture or husbandry » Rendered laborious by the curse on the earth
And He said to Adam, "Because you listened to your wife's voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'Do not eat from it': The ground is cursed because of you. You will eat from it by means of painful labor all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust."
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » Allotments to each family
An inheritance belonging to the Israelites must not transfer from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of his ancestral tribe. Any daughter who possesses an inheritance from an Israelite tribe must marry someone from the clan of her ancestral tribe, so that each of the Israelites will possess the inheritance of his fathers. No inheritance is to transfer from one tribe to another, because each of the Israelite tribes is to retain its inheritance."
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The harrow
He removed the people who were in the city and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, and to labor at brickmaking. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then he and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The plow
So all the Israelites went to the Philistines to sharpen their plows, mattocks, axes, and sickles.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The fork
The price was two-thirds of a shekel for plows and mattocks, and one-third of a shekel for pitchforks and axes, and for putting a point on an oxgoad.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The axe
So all the Israelites went to the Philistines to sharpen their plows, mattocks, axes, and sickles.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Weeding
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Toil
The hardworking farmer ought to be the first to get a share of the crops.
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The prohibition against usury
“If you lend money to My people, to the poor person among you, you must not be like a moneylender to him; you must not charge him interest.
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » Separation from other nations
How will it be known that I and Your people have found favor in Your sight unless You go with us? I and Your people will be distinguished by this from all the other people on the face of the earth.”
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » Horses
but is not threshed endlessly.
Though the wheel of the farmer’s cart rumbles,
his horses do not crush it.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The teethed threshing instrument
new, with many teeth.
You will thresh mountains and pulverize them
and make hills into chaff.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The flail, &c
with a threshing board,
and a cart wheel is not rolled over the cumin.
But black cumin is beaten out with a stick,
and cumin with a rod.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The shovel
The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder scattered with winnowing shovel and fork.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Wisdom
He instructs him.
Agriculture or husbandry » Man doomed to labor in, after the fall
So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
Agriculture or husbandry » The occupation of man before the fall
The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it.
Agriculture or husbandry » The cultivation of the earth
So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Tillers of the ground
Then she also gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd of flocks, but Cain worked the ground.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Against injuring the produce of
“When a fire gets out of control, spreads to thornbushes, and consumes stacks of cut grain, standing grain, or a field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution for what was burned.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Against the trespass of cattle
“When a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed in, and then allows his animals to go and graze in someone else’s field, he must repay with the best of his own field or vineyard.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Stacking
“When a fire gets out of control, spreads to thornbushes, and consumes stacks of cut grain, standing grain, or a field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution for what was burned.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Reaping
his arm harvesting the heads of grain—
and as if one had gleaned heads of grain
in the Valley of Rephaim.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Gathering out the stones
and planted it with the finest vines.
He built a tower in the middle of it
and even dug out a winepress there.
He expected
but it yielded worthless grapes.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Patience in waiting
Therefore, brothers, be patient until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and is patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The sieve
and I will shake the house of Israel
among all the nations,
as one shakes a sieve,
but not a pebble will fall to the ground.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Plowing
a messenger came to Job and reported: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys grazing nearby,
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