Thematic Bible: Agriculture or husbandry
Thematic Bible
Agriculture or husbandry » Often performed by hirelings
"Suppose a man among you has a servant plowing or watching sheep. Would he say to him when he comes in from the field, "Come at once and have something to eat'?
He also built watchtowers in the wilderness and had many cisterns hewed out, since he also possessed large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the midland plains. He had many farmers and vinedressers throughout the hills and fertile lands because he loved farming.
"When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his manager, "Call the workers and give them their wages, beginning with the last and ending with the first.'
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Diligence in, abundantly recompensed
Whoever tills his soil will have a lot to eat, but anyone who pursues fantasies lacks sense.
The field of the poor may produce much food, but it can be swept away through injustice.
Whoever works his farmland will have abundant food, but whoever chases fantasies will become very poor.
For when the ground soaks up rain that often falls on it and continues producing vegetation useful to those for whom it is cultivated, it receives a blessing from God.
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The promises of God's blessings on
then I'll send your rain in its season so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will yield their fruit.
He'll love you and increase your numbers. He'll bless the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your land (the grain, new wine, and oil), the offspring of your herds, and the lambs of your flock, in the land that the LORD promised your ancestors he would give you.
then he will send rain on the land in its season the early and latter rains then you'll gather grain, new wine, and oil. He will provide grass on the fields for your livestock, and you'll eat and be satisfied.
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, often blasted because of sin
For ten acres of vineyard will produce only one bath, and one omer of seed will produce only one ephah."
"At that time, every place where once there were a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briars and thorns will grow.
They have sown wheat, but they have harvested thorns. They have tired themselves out, but they don't show a profit. Now be disappointed about your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
"The fields lie in ruins and the ground is dried up. Indeed, the grain is ruined, the new wine has evaporated, and the olive oil has run out. Be dismayed, you farmers! Cry aloud, you vintners, for the wheat and barley, because the harvest in your fields has been lost.
Agriculture or husbandry » The jews loved and followed
Elijah left there and located Shaphat's son Elisha, who was plowing, along with a total of twelve pairs of oxen. (He was plowing with the twelfth pair.) As Elijah passed by, he tossed his cloak at Elisha.
After this, the angel of the LORD arrived and sat down in the shade of the oak tree in Ophrah that belonged to Joash, a descendant of Abiezer, while his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a wine press in order to safeguard it from the Midianites.
He also built watchtowers in the wilderness and had many cisterns hewed out, since he also possessed large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the midland plains. He had many farmers and vinedressers throughout the hills and fertile lands because he loved farming.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Sowing
Whoever keeps staring at the wind won't sow; whoever daydreams won't reap.
How happy you will be, sowing your seed beside every stream, and letting your cattle and donkeys range freely!"
Then he began to tell them many things in parables. He said, "Listen! A farmer went out to sow.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Planting
She evaluates a field and purchases it; from the proceeds she plants a vineyard.
He cuts down cedars, or chooses a cypress tree or an oak, and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. Or he plants a cedar, and the rain makes it grow.
You will again plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria where planters had planted and defiled the fruit.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Watering
For the land that you are about to enter to inherit isn't like the land of Egypt that you just left, where you plant a seed and irrigate it with your feet like a vegetable garden.
I planted, Apollos watered, but God kept everything growing. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is significant, but God, who keeps everything growing, is the one who matters. The one who plants and the one who waters have the same goal, and each will receive a reward for his own action.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Pruning
He cuts off every branch that does not produce fruit in me, and he cuts back every branch that does produce fruit, so that it might produce more fruit.
For six years you may plant your fields, and for six years you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce.
I'll make it a wasteland, and it won't be pruned or cultivated. Instead, briers and thorns will grow up. I'll also issue commands to the clouds, that they drop no rain upon it."
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Diligence
Sow your seed in the morning, and don't stop working until evening, since you don't know which of your endeavors will do well, whether this one or that, or even if both will do equally well.
Keep well informed of the condition of your flocks and pay attention to your herds, because riches don't endure forever, and crowns don't last from one generation to the next. When the grass disappears, and new growth appears, the mountain spices will be harvested, read more.
the lambs will supply your clothing, and your goats the price of a field. You will have enough goat's milk to drink and to supply your household needs, as well as sustenance for your servant girls.
the lambs will supply your clothing, and your goats the price of a field. You will have enough goat's milk to drink and to supply your household needs, as well as sustenance for your servant girls.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The sickle
When you enter your countrymen's grain fields, you may pluck the grain with your hand, but don't put a sickle to his standing grain."
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to move landmarks
"When you inherit the land that the LORD your God is about to give you, don't move your neighbor's boundary marker from where it was placed long ago."
Don't remove an ancient boundary stone that was set up by your ancestors.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Digging
I'll make it a wasteland, and it won't be pruned or cultivated. Instead, briers and thorns will grow up. I'll also issue commands to the clouds, that they drop no rain upon it."
But the gardener replied, "Sir, leave it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and fertilize it.
"Then the servant manager told himself, "What should I do? My master is taking my position away from me. I'm not strong enough to plow, and I'm ashamed to beg.
Agriculture or husbandry » Soil of canaan suited to
Lot looked around and noticed that the whole Jordan plain as far as Zoar was well-watered like the garden of the LORD or like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
because the LORD your God is bringing you to a good land a land with rivers and deep springs flowing to the valleys and hills. It's a land filled with wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates. It's a land filled with olive oil and honey a land without scarcity. You'll eat food in it and lack nothing. It's a land where its rocks are iron and you can dig copper from its mountains."
Agriculture or husbandry » War destructive to
I'll smash the shepherd and his flock with you. I'll smash the farmer and his team of oxen with you. I'll smash governors and officials with you.
Eliminate from Babylon the one who plants seeds and the one who uses the sickle at harvest time. Because of the oppressor's sword, let each one turn toward his own people and flee to his own land."
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Threshing
After this, the angel of the LORD arrived and sat down in the shade of the oak tree in Ophrah that belonged to Joash, a descendant of Abiezer, while his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a wine press in order to safeguard it from the Midianites.
"Don't muzzle an ox while it is threshing grain."
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Grafting
Now if some of the branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive branch, have been grafted in their place to share the rich root of the olive tree, do not boast about being better than the other branches. If you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. Then you will say, "Branches were cut off so that I could be grafted in."
After all, if you were cut off from what is naturally a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much easier it will be for these natural branches to be grafted back into their own olive tree!
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The cart
"So make a new cart, and take two milk cows that have never had a yoke on them. Hitch the cows to the cart and take their calves away from them and back to the house.
For caraway is not threshed with a sharp sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin. Instead, caraway is winnowed with a stick, and cumin with a rod. It must be ground; one cannot keep threshing it forever. Even if he drives his cart and horses over it, he cannot crush it.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Storing in barns
Look at the birds in the sky. They don't plant or harvest or gather food into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. You are more valuable than they are, aren't you?
Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, "Gather the weeds first and tie them in bundles for burning, but bring the wheat into my barn."'"
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The mattock
Everyone in Israel would have to go to the Philistines so each person could sharpen his plow, his mattock, his axe, and his sickle.
As for all the hills that used to be cultivated with a hoe, you won't go there, because you'll fear iron briars and thorns. Nevertheless, those hills will be reserved as a pasture where cattle will feed and where sheep will graze."
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Manuring
For the LORD's power will rest on this mountain, but the Moabites will be trodden down beneath him, just as straw is trodden down in the slime of a manure pit.
"Now, salt is good. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can its flavor be restored? It's suitable neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. People throw it away. Let the person who has ears to hear, listen!"
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Binding
"We were tying sheaves together out in the middle of the fields, when all of a sudden, my sheaf stood up erect! And then your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf!"
Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, "Gather the weeds first and tie them in bundles for burning, but bring the wheat into my barn."'"
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, exported
In return, Solomon paid Hiram 20,000 kors of wheat as food for his household, and 20 kors of beaten oil. Solomon provided this amount every year during the construction.
The territories of Judah and Israel were your clients, too. They traded wheat from their distribution centers, baked goods, honey, oil, and ointments for your merchandise.
Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Laborers
Then he told his disciples, "The harvest is vast, but the workers are few.
"The kingdom from heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The fan
His winnowing fork is in his hand. He will clean up his threshing floor and gather his grain into the barn, but he will burn the chaff with inextinguishable fire."
and oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder that workers will winnow with shovels and forks.
Agriculture or husbandry » The labor of, supposed to be lessened by noah
Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant and farm a vineyard.
whom he named Noah, because he said, "May this one comfort us from our work, from pain that is caused by our manual labor, and from the ground that the LORD has cursed."
Agriculture or husbandry » Peace favorable to
Judah and all its towns will live together in the land, along with farmers and those who follow the flock.
He will judge between the nations, and will render verdicts for the benefit of many. "They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nations will not raise swords against nations, and they will not learn warfare anymore.
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 your unplowed ground, and don't sow among thorns.
Sow in righteousness in your own interest, reap in gracious love, break up your own unprepared ground; It is now time to inquire of the LORD, until he comes to pour out righteousness for you.
Agriculture or husbandry » Patriarchs engaged in
Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant and farm a vineyard.
And she did it again, giving birth to his brother Abel. Abel shepherded flocks and Cain became a farmer.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Gleaning
"When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to completely finish harvesting the corners of the field that is, you are not to pick what remains after you have reaped your harvest.
So she went out, proceeded to the field, and gleaned behind the harvesters. And it happened that she came to the portion of land belonging to Boaz, of the family of Elimelech.
Agriculture or husbandry » The providence of God to be acknowledged in the produce of
They don't say to themselves, "Let's fear the LORD our God, who gives rain in its season, both the autumn and the spring rain. He sets aside for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.'
She didn't recognize that it was I who provided her grain, wine, and oil, and it was I who gave her silver, while they crafted gold for Baal.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Harrowing
Can you bind the ox to plow a furrow with a rope? Will he harrow after you in the valley?
Does he who plows for sowing plow all the time? Does he keep on breaking up and harrowing his field?
Agriculture or husbandry » Grief occasioned by the failure of the fruits of
Be dismayed, you farmers! Cry aloud, you vintners, for the wheat and barley, because the harvest in your fields has been lost.
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of the Heavenly Armies, the Lord, says: "There will be dirges in all of the streets; and in all of the highways they will cry out in anguish. They will call the farmer to mourning and those who lament to grieve. And in all of the vineyards there will be mourning when I pass through your midst,' says the LORD."
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The pruning-hook
For before the harvest, when the season of budding is over, and sour grapes ripen into mature grapes, he cuts off the shoots with pruning knives, clearing away the spreading branches as he lops them off.
Beat your plow blades into swords, and your pruning knives into spears! Let the frail say, "I am strong!"
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Winnowing
Isn't Boaz one of our close relatives? You've been associating with his women servants lately. Look, he'll be winnowing barley at the threshing floor tonight.
His winnowing fork is in his hand. He will clean up his threshing floor and gather his grain into the barn, but he will burn the chaff with inextinguishable fire."
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Hedging
He plowed its land and cleared it of stones. Then he planted it with the choicest vines, built a watchtower in the middle of it, and dug a wine vat in it; He expected it to produce good grapes, but it produced only wild ones."
"Now, let me tell you, won't you please, what I'm going to do to my vineyard. "I'm going to take away its protective hedge, and it will be devoured; I'll break down its wall, and it will be trampled.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Mowing
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: Look! He was forming locust swarms as the latter plantings were just beginning to sprout. Indeed, the king had just taken his first fruit tax.
Agriculture or husbandry » Climate of canaan favorable to
For the land that you are about to enter to inherit isn't like the land of Egypt that you just left, where you plant a seed and irrigate it with your feet like a vegetable garden. Instead, the land that you are crossing over to inherit is a land of hills and valleys that drinks water supplied by rain from heaven,
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The rights of redemption
"The land is not to be sold with any finality, because the land belongs to me. You're sojourners and travelers with me. So throughout all of your land inheritance, grant the right of redemption for the land. "If your brother becomes so poor that he has to a sell portion of his inheritance, then his nearest kinsman redeemer is to come and redeem what his brother has sold. read more.
If a person doesn't have a kinsman redeemer, but has become rich and found sufficient means for his redemption, then let him account for the years for which it was sold, return the excess to the person to whom it was sold, and then return to his property. If he's not able to redeem it back for himself, then what he sold is to remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee, it is to be returned so he may return to his property.
If a person doesn't have a kinsman redeemer, but has become rich and found sufficient means for his redemption, then let him account for the years for which it was sold, return the excess to the person to whom it was sold, and then return to his property. If he's not able to redeem it back for himself, then what he sold is to remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee, it is to be returned so he may return to his property.
Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Husbandmen
He also built watchtowers in the wilderness and had many cisterns hewed out, since he also possessed large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the midland plains. He had many farmers and vinedressers throughout the hills and fertile lands because he loved farming.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to cut down crops of another
When you enter your countrymen's grain fields, you may pluck the grain with your hand, but don't put a sickle to his standing grain."
Agriculture or husbandry » Illustrative of the » Culture of the church
For we are God's co-workers. You are God's farmland and God's building.
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » The ass
"Don't plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to covet the fields of another
""You are not to desire your neighbor's wife nor crave your neighbor's house, his fields, his male and female servants, his ox, his donkey, nor anything that pertains to your neighbor.'"
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » Oxen
"Don't muzzle an ox while it is threshing grain."
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, given as rent for land
"Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a wall around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad. When harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenant farmers to collect his produce.
Agriculture or husbandry » Contributes to the support of all
Also, the increase of the land belongs to everyone; the king himself is served by his field.
Agriculture or husbandry » Not to be engaged in during the sabbatical year
"You are to sow your land and gather its crops for six years, but you are to let it rest the seventh year, leaving it unplanted. The poor of your people may eat from it, and the wild animals may eat what they leave. You are to do the same with your vineyards and olive groves.
Agriculture or husbandry » Rendered laborious by the curse on the earth
He told the man, "Because you have listened to what your wife said, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, "You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground because of you. You'll eat from it through pain-filled labor for the rest of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you'll eat the plants from the meadows. You will eat food by the sweat of your brow until you're buried in the ground, because you were taken from it. You're made from dust and you'll return to dust."
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » Allotments to each family
so that the inheritance of the Israelis won't be turned over from one tribe to another. Each one has an inheritance from his own father's tribe that the Israelis are to maintain. Every daughter who is in possession of an inheritance from the Israelis is to marry someone from the families within her father's tribe so the Israelis can retain possession of their ancestral inheritance. That way, their inheritance won't be turned over from one tribe to another, because the Israelis are each to maintain their ancestral inheritances."
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The harrow
brought back the people who had lived in it, placing them under conscripted labor with saws, iron picks, and axes. He did this to every Ammonite city, and then David and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The plow
Everyone in Israel would have to go to the Philistines so each person could sharpen his plow, his mattock, his axe, and his sickle.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The fork
The charge was one pin for plows, mattocks, three pronged forks, and axes, or for setting the goads.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The axe
Everyone in Israel would have to go to the Philistines so each person could sharpen his plow, his mattock, his axe, and his sickle.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Weeding
"He told them, "An enemy did this!' "The servants asked him, "Do you want us to go and pull them out?'
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Toil
Furthermore, it is the hard working farmer who should have the first share of the crops.
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The prohibition against usury
"If you loan money to my people, to the poor among you, don't be like a creditor to them and don't impose interest on them.
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » Separation from other nations
Otherwise, how shall it be known that your people and I have received favor from you, unless you go with us and that we, your people and I, are distinguished from all the people on the surface of the earth?"
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » Horses
It must be ground; one cannot keep threshing it forever. Even if he drives his cart and horses over it, he cannot crush it.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The teethed threshing instrument
"See, I'm making you into a new, sharp, and multi-tooth threshing sledge. You'll thresh and crush the mountains, and make the hills like chaff.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The flail, &c
For caraway is not threshed with a sharp sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin. Instead, caraway is winnowed with a stick, and cumin with a rod.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The shovel
and oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder that workers will winnow with shovels and forks.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Wisdom
His God instructs him regarding the correct way, directing him how to plant.
Agriculture or husbandry » Man doomed to labor in, after the fall
therefore the LORD God expelled the man from the garden of Eden so he would work the ground from which he had been 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 in order to have him work it and guard it.
Agriculture or husbandry » The cultivation of the earth
therefore the LORD God expelled the man from the garden of Eden so he would work the ground from which he had been taken.
Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Tillers of the ground
And she did it again, giving birth to his brother Abel. Abel shepherded flocks and Cain became a farmer.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Against injuring the produce of
"When a fire breaks out and spreads into thorn bushes and consumes stacked grain or standing grain or the field, the one who started the fire certainly is to make restitution.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Against the trespass of cattle
"When a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed over or releases his livestock so that they graze in another man's field, he is to make restitution from the best of his field or vineyard.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Stacking
"When a fire breaks out and spreads into thorn bushes and consumes stacked grain or standing grain or the field, the one who started the fire certainly is to make restitution.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Reaping
it will be as if harvesters gather standing grain, reaping the ears by hand, or it will be as if grain is harvested in the valley of Rephaim.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Gathering out the stones
He plowed its land and cleared it of stones. Then he planted it with the choicest vines, built a watchtower in the middle of it, and dug a wine vat in it; He expected it to produce good grapes, but it produced only wild ones."
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Patience in waiting
So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious crop from his land, being patient with it until it receives the fall and the spring rains.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The sieve
"Look! I'm giving the order: I will sift the house of Israel throughout all the nations, as one sifts with a sieve, yet not a single kernel will reach the ground!
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Plowing
a messenger approached Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the female donkeys were grazing nearby
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