Thematic Bible: Agriculture or husbandry
Thematic Bible
Agriculture or husbandry » Often performed by hirelings
But which of you, having a slave plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by when he is come from the field, Go and sit down at the table?
He also built towers in the desert and dug many wells, for he had much livestock, both in the low country and in the plains, husbandmen also and vine dressers in the mountains and in Carmel, for he loved agriculture.
and over those that did the work of the tillage of the ground in the fields was Ezri the son of Chelub;
So when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard said unto his steward, Call the labourers and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Diligence in, abundantly recompensed
He that tills his land shall be satisfied with bread, but he that follows vain persons is void of understanding.
In the fallow ground of the poor there is much bread, but it is lost for lack of judgment.
He that tills his land shall be filled with bread, but he that follows after vain persons shall be filled with poverty.
For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it and brings forth herbs in season for those by whom it is dressed receives blessing from God;
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The promises of God's blessings on
then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
and he will love thee and bless thee and multiply thee; he will also bless the fruit of thy womb and the fruit of thy land, thy grain and thy wine and thine oil, the increase of thy cows and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he swore unto thy fathers to give thee.
that I will give you the rain of your land in its due season, the early rain and the latter rain, and thou shalt gather in thy grain and thy wine and thine oil. And I will send grass in thy fields for thy beasts, and thou shalt eat and be full.
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, often blasted because of sin
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
And it shall come to pass in that day that in the place where there were a thousand vines that were worth a thousand shekels of silver, it shall even be for the briers and for the thorns.
They have sown bread, but shall reap thorns; they had the heritage, but they did not profit; and they shall be ashamed because of your fruits, by the fierce anger of the LORD.
The field was destroyed, the land mourns; for the wheat was destroyed; the new wine was dried up, the oil perished. Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is lost.
Agriculture or husbandry » The jews loved and followed
So he departed from there and found Elisha, the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. And Elijah passed by him and cast his mantle upon him.
And the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah that pertained unto Joash, the Abiezrite, and his son Gideon threshed wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
He also built towers in the desert and dug many wells, for he had much livestock, both in the low country and in the plains, husbandmen also and vine dressers in the mountains and in Carmel, for he loved agriculture.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Sowing
He that observes the wind shall not sow, and he that regards the clouds shall not reap.
And he spoke many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went forth to sow;
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Planting
Zain She considered the inheritance and bought it; with the fruit of her hands she planted a vineyard.
He shall hew down cedars and take the cypress and the oak, and he shall strengthen himself with the trees of the forest; he shall plant a fir tree, which shall be nourished with the rain.
Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant and shall eat them as common things.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Watering
For the land, into which thou goest to inherit it, is not as the land of Egypt, from which ye came out, where thou didst sow thy seed and water it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs.
I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters, but God that gives the increase. Now he that plants and he that waters are one although each one shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Pruning
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he shall take away; and every one that bears fruit, he shall purge that they may bring forth more fruit.
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard and gather in the fruit thereof,
And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned, nor hoed; but briers and thorns shall come up there; I will even command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Diligence
In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand; for thou knowest not which shall prosper, either this or that or whether they both shall be equally good.
Be thou diligent to know the countenance of thy sheep, and put thy heart into thy herds. For riches are not for ever, and does the crown endure to every generation? The tender grass shows itself, and the hay appears, and the herbs of the mountains are reaped. read more.
The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are for the price of the field. And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance of thy maidens.
The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are for the price of the field. And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance of thy maidens.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The sickle
Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee; begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou shalt begin to put the sickle to the grain.
When thou comest into the standing grain of thy neighbour, then thou may pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing grain.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to move landmarks
Thou shalt not reduce thy neighbour's border, which those of old time have marked in thine inheritance, which thou shalt possess in the land that the LORD thy God gives thee to inherit.
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Digging
And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned, nor hoed; but briers and thorns shall come up there; I will even command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
And he, answering, said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also until I shall dig about it and dung it,
Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord takes the stewardship away from me; I cannot dig, and I am ashamed to beg.
Agriculture or husbandry » Soil of canaan suited to
And Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the plain of the Jordan that it was well watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as a garden of the LORD like the land of Egypt as thou comest unto Zoar.
For the LORD thy God brings thee into a good land, a land of brooks, of waters, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olives, of oil, and honey; a land in which thou shalt eat bread without scarceness; thou shalt not lack any thing in it, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose mountains thou may dig brass.
Agriculture or husbandry » War destructive to
I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee I will break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee I will break in pieces dukes and princes.
Cut off the sower from Babylon and him that handles the sickle in the time of harvest; for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn each one to his people, and they shall flee each one to his own land.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Threshing
And the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah that pertained unto Joash, the Abiezrite, and his son Gideon threshed wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Grafting
And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them and hath been made participant of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if thou boast, know that thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature and wert grafted contrary to nature into the good olive tree, how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The cart
Now, therefore, make a new cart and take two milk cows, on which no yoke has been placed and tie the cows to the cart and bring their calves home from them.
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff and the cummin with a rod. Grain is thrashed to make bread; but he will not ever be threshing it, nor shall he grind it with the wheel of his cart, nor crush it with the teeth of his thrashing instrument.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Storing in barns
Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not much better than they?
Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The mattock
But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen each man his share and his coulter and his axe and his mattock
But the fear of briers and thorns shall not come unto all the hills that were dug with the hoe, but they shall be for pasture of oxen and for the treading of the lesser cattle.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Manuring
For in this mountain the hand of the LORD shall rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its savour, with what shall it be seasoned? It is neither good for the land, nor for the dunghill; it is cast out. He that has ears to hear, let him hear.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Binding
For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about and made obeisance to my sheaf.
Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, exported
And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household and twenty thousand measures of pure oil; this gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
Judah, and the land of Israel; they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market with wheat, Minnith and Pannag and honey and oil and balm.
Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Laborers
Then he said unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
For the kingdom of the heavens is like unto a man, the husband of a house, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The fan
whose fan is in his hand; and he will thoroughly purge his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn up the chaff with fire that shall never be quenched.
Thine oxen and thine asses that work the ground shall eat clean grain, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
Agriculture or husbandry » The labor of, supposed to be lessened by noah
And Noah began to till the ground, and he planted a vineyard;
and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands because of the ground which the LORD has cursed.
Agriculture or husbandry » Peace favorable to
And Judah shall dwell in her, and also in all her cities, husbandmen, and those that go forth with flocks.
And he shall judge among the Gentiles and shall rebuke many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruninghooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Agriculture or husbandry » Illustrative of the » Culture of the heart
For thus has the LORD said to every man of Judah and of Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns.
Sow yourselves unto righteousness, reap yourselves unto mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is the time to seek the LORD until he comes and teaches you righteousness.
Agriculture or husbandry » Patriarchs engaged in
And Noah began to till the ground, and he planted a vineyard;
And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a pastor of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Gleaning
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not completely reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
And she went and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and it came to pass that her lot was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
Agriculture or husbandry » The providence of God to be acknowledged in the produce of
Neither do they say in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God that gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; he shall keep us with the appointed weeks of the harvest.
For she did not recognize that I gave her the wheat and the wine and the oil and multiplied unto them the silver and the gold, with which they made Baal.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Harrowing
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? Will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Does the plowman plow all day to sow? does he open and break the clods of his ground?
Agriculture or husbandry » Grief occasioned by the failure of the fruits of
Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is lost.
Therefore the LORD, the God of the hosts, the Lord, said this: Wailing shall be in all streets, and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. And in all vineyards shall be wailing, for I will pass through the midst of thee, said the LORD.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The pruning-hook
For before the harvest, when the fruit is perfect, and after the flower is past and the fruit is mature, then he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks and take away and cut down the branches.
beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Winnowing
And now is not Boaz of our kindred with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.
whose fan is in his hand; and he will thoroughly purge his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn up the chaff with fire that shall never be quenched.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Hedging
and he had fenced it and gathered out the stones thereof and planted it with the choicest vine and built a tower in the midst of it and also made a winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down its wall, and it shall be trodden down:
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Mowing
Thus hath the Lord GOD showed unto me, and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter hay; and, behold that the latter hay grew after the king's reapings.
Agriculture or husbandry » Climate of canaan favorable to
For the land, into which thou goest to inherit it, is not as the land of Egypt, from which ye came out, where thou didst sow thy seed and water it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs. The land, into which ye go to inherit it, is a land of mountains and valleys and drinks water of the rain of heaven,
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The rights of redemption
The land shall not be sold for ever, for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. Therefore, in all the land of your possession, ye shall grant a redemption for the land. If thy brother becomes poor and has sold away some of his possession, his redeemer shall come, his closest kinsman, and shall redeem that which his brother sold. read more.
And when the man has no redeemer and is able to stretch forth his hand and find enough for his redemption, then he shall count the years from the sale thereof and pay that which remains unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession. But if he is not able to stretch forth his hand and find enough to return unto it, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of the one that has bought it until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee the land shall go out free, and he shall return unto his possession.
And when the man has no redeemer and is able to stretch forth his hand and find enough for his redemption, then he shall count the years from the sale thereof and pay that which remains unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession. But if he is not able to stretch forth his hand and find enough to return unto it, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of the one that has bought it until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee the land shall go out free, and he shall return unto his possession.
Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Husbandmen
He also built towers in the desert and dug many wells, for he had much livestock, both in the low country and in the plains, husbandmen also and vine dressers in the mountains and in Carmel, for he loved agriculture.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to cut down crops of another
When thou comest into the standing grain of thy neighbour, then thou may pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing grain.
Agriculture or husbandry » Illustrative of the » Culture of the church
For we are labourers together with God; ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » The ass
Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to covet the fields of another
Thou shalt not desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field or his manslave or his maidslave, his ox or his ass or any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » Oxen
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, given as rent for land
Hear another parable: There was a certain husband of a house who planted a vineyard and hedged it round about and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far country, and when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits of it.
Agriculture or husbandry » Contributes to the support of all
And there is higher authority in all of the things of the earth, but he who serves the field is king.
Agriculture or husbandry » Not to be engaged in during the sabbatical year
And six years thou shalt sow thy land and shalt gather in its increase, but the seventh year thou shalt leave it free and release it, that the poor of thy people may eat, and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard and with thy oliveyard.
Agriculture or husbandry » Rendered laborious by the curse on the earth
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed shall be the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the grass of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » Allotments to each family
so that the inheritance of the sons of Israel shall not be passed from tribe to tribe; for each one of the sons of Israel shall cleave to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. And any daughter, that possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the sons of Israel, shall marry one of the family of the tribe of her father so that each man of the sons of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers. So that the inheritance shall not change from one tribe to another tribe, each one of the tribes of the sons of Israel shall cleave to his own inheritance.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The harrow
And he brought forth the people that were therein and put them under saws and under harrows of iron and under axes of iron and made them pass through the brickkiln, and thus did he unto all the cities of the sons of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The plow
But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen each man his share and his coulter and his axe and his mattock
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The fork
and when they had nicks in the mattocks and the coulters and the forks and the axes, or to fix a goad.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The axe
But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen each man his share and his coulter and his axe and his mattock
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Weeding
He said unto them, The enemy, a man, has done this. The slaves said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Toil
The husbandman, in order to receive the fruits, must first work hard.
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The prohibition against usury
If thou should lend money to my people, to the poor who is with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » Separation from other nations
For in what shall it be known here that I have found grace in thy sight, I and thy people, but in that thou goest with us, and I and thy people will be separated from all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth?
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » Horses
Grain is thrashed to make bread; but he will not ever be threshing it, nor shall he grind it with the wheel of his cart, nor crush it with the teeth of his thrashing instrument.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The teethed threshing instrument
Behold, I have placed thee as a threshing instrument, as a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains and beat them small and shalt make the hills as chaff.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The flail, &c
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff and the cummin with a rod.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The shovel
Thine oxen and thine asses that work the ground shall eat clean grain, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Wisdom
For his God teaches him to know how to judge and instructs him.
Agriculture or husbandry » Man doomed to labor in, after the fall
therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.
Agriculture or husbandry » The occupation of man before the fall
And the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Agriculture or husbandry » The cultivation of the earth
therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.
Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Tillers of the ground
And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a pastor of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Against injuring the produce of
When fires are lit and in burning the thorns burn also the stacks of sheaves or the standing grain, or the field is consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Against the trespass of cattle
If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten and shall put in his beast and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field and of the best of his own vineyard shall he make restitution.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Stacking
When fires are lit and in burning the thorns burn also the stacks of sheaves or the standing grain, or the field is consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Reaping
And it shall be as when the harvestman gathers the sheaves and reaps the grain with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathers grain in the valley of Rephaim.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Gathering out the stones
and he had fenced it and gathered out the stones thereof and planted it with the choicest vine and built a tower in the midst of it and also made a winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Patience in waiting
Be patient, therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently until it receives the early and latter rain.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The sieve
For, behold, I will command, and I will cause the house of Israel to be sifted among all the Gentiles like as the grain is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall to the earth.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Plowing
and a messenger came unto Job and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;
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