Thematic Bible: Agriculture or husbandry
Thematic Bible
Agriculture or husbandry » Often performed by hirelings
But which of you who has a servant plowing or feeding will say to him immediately after he has come from the field, Come, recline?
And he built towers in the desert, and dug many wells. For he had many cattle, both in the low country and in the plains. He also had husbandmen and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel. For he loved the earth.
So when evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his steward, Call the laborers and pay them their wage, beginning from the last to the first.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Diligence in, abundantly recompensed
He who tills his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he who follows vanities lacks heart.
Much food is in the plowed ground of the poor, but when there is no justice, it is swept away.
He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he pursuing vanities shall have poverty enough.
(For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth plants fit 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 you and bless you and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your land, your grain, and your wine, and your oil, the increase of your cattle, and the flocks of your sheep, in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you.
I will give the rain of your land in its due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. And I will send grass in your fields for your cattle so that you may eat and be full.
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, often blasted because of sin
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.
And it shall be, in that day every place where there were a thousand vines, worth a thousand pieces of silver, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns. They are worn out, but they do not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvests because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.
The field is wasted; the land mourns, for the grain is wasted. The new wine is dried up; the oil tree droops. Be ashamed, husbandmen; howl, vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.
Agriculture or husbandry » The jews loved and followed
And he left there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, and he was plowing; twelve pairs of oxen were before him, and he was with the twelfth. And Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle on him.
And the Angel of Jehovah came and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. And his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
And he built towers in the desert, and dug many wells. For he had many cattle, both in the low country and in the plains. He also had husbandmen and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel. For he loved the earth.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Sowing
He who watches the wind shall not sow; and he who pays attention to the clouds shall not reap.
Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the ass.
And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went out to sow.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Planting
She considers a field, and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.
He cuts down cedars, and takes cypress and oak, which he makes the trees of the forest strong for him; he plants a tree, and the rain makes it grow.
You shall yet plant vines on 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 you go to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt from which you came out, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, like a garden of herbs.
I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither is he who plants anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. So he planting, and he watering, are one, and each one shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Pruning
Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away. And every one that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bring forth more fruit.
You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in the fruit of it.
and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor dug; but briers and thorns shall come up. And I will command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Diligence
In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not withhold your hand; for you do not know what shall be blessed, either this or that, or whether they both shall be fruitful in the same way.
Know well the face of your flocks; set your heart on your herds. For riches are not forever; nor the crown from generation to generation. When the hay is removed, and the tender grass is seen, and mountain-plants are gathered, read more.
the lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. And you shall have goats' milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and a living for your young women.
the lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. And you shall have goats' milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and a living for your young women.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The sickle
You shall count seven weeks to yourselves. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time you began to put the sickle to the grain.
When you come into the standing grain of your neighbor, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not move a sickle into your neighbor's standing grain.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to move landmarks
You may not remove your neighbor's landmark, which those in the past have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land which Jehovah your God gives you to possess it.
Do not remove the old landmark which your fathers have set.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Digging
and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor dug; but briers and thorns shall come up. And I will command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.
And answering, he said to him, Lord, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and throw manure.
And the steward said within himself, What shall I do? For my lord is taking the stewardship away from me. I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.
Agriculture or husbandry » Soil of canaan suited to
And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the circuit of Jordan, that it was all well watered (before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah,) like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt as you come to Zoar.
For Jehovah your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, 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 olive oil and honey, a land in which you shall eat bread without want. You shall not lack any thing in it. It is a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
Agriculture or husbandry » War destructive to
I will also shatter the shepherd and his flock with you. And with you I will shatter the farmer and his team; and with you I will shatter heads and rulers.
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who handles the sickle in the time of harvest. For fear of the pressing 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 Jehovah came and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. And his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
You shall not muzzle an ox when he treads out the grain.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Grafting
And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a sharer of the root and the fatness of the olive tree with them, do not boast against the branches. But if you boast, it is not you that bears the root, but the root bears you. You will say then, The branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.
For if you were cut out of the natural wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more these being according to nature will be grafted into their own olive-tree?
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The cart
And now make a new cart, and take two milk cows on which there has come no yoke, and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them.
For the dill is not threshed with a threshing instrument, nor is a cart wheel turned on cummin; but the dill is beaten out with a staff and the cummin with a rod. Bread grain is crushed, but not always does one thresh it with threshing. And he drives the wheel of his cart; and his horses do not beat it small.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Storing in barns
Behold the birds of the air; for they sow not, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them; are you not much better than they are?
Let both grow together until the harvest. And in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, First gather together the darnel and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my granary.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The mattock
But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, each man to sharpen his plowshare, and his mattock, and his axe, and his coulter.
And all hills which were hoed with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of the ox, and for the trampling of sheep.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Manuring
For the hand of Jehovah shall rest in this mountain, and Moab shall be trampled under Him, even as straw is trampled in the water of a dung pit.
Salt is good, but if the salt has become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned? It is not fit for the land, nor for manure, but men throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Binding
For behold! We were binding sheaves in the middle of the field, and lo, my sheaf arose and also stood upright. And behold, your sheaves stood around and bowed down to my sheaf.
Let both grow together until the harvest. And in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, First gather together the darnel and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my granary.
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, exported
And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food for his household, and twenty measures of pure oil. So Solomon gave to Hiram year by year.
Judah and the land of Israel were your merchants with wheat from Minnith and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm, they gave for your goods.
Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Laborers
Then He said to His disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few.
For the kingdom of Heaven is like a man, a housemaster, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The fan
whose fan is in His hand, and He will cleanse His floor and gather His wheat into the storehouse; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Also the oxen and the young asses that plow the ground shall eat clean fodder, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
Agriculture or husbandry » The labor of, supposed to be lessened by noah
And Noah began to be a husbandman. And he planted a vineyard.
And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed.
Agriculture or husbandry » Peace favorable to
And farmers, and those going forth with flocks, shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities of it together.
And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. 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 so says Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns.
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground. For it is time to seek Jehovah, until He comes and rains righteousness on you.
Agriculture or husbandry » Patriarchs engaged in
And Noah began to be a husbandman. And he planted a vineyard.
And she bore again, his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Gleaning
And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corner of your field. And you shall not gather the gleaning of your harvest.
And she went. And she came and gleaned in the field after the reapers. And she happened to come upon a part of the field of Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
Agriculture or husbandry » The providence of God to be acknowledged in the produce of
And they do not say in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, who gives both the former and the latter rain in its season; He reserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
For she did not know that I gave her grain, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Harrowing
Can you tie the wild ox in the furrow with his rope? Or will he harrow the valleys for you?
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 ashamed, husbandmen; howl, vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.
So Jehovah, the God of Hosts, the Master, says this: Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! Alas! And they shall call the tiller to mourning, and those who are skillful in mourning to wailing. And there shall be wailing in all vineyards; for I will pass through you, says Jehovah.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The pruning-hook
For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, then He will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, I am strong.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Winnowing
And now, is not Boaz of our kindred, he with whose maidens you were? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing-floor.
whose fan is in His hand, and He will cleanse His floor and gather His wheat into the storehouse; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Hedging
And He fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with choice vines, and built a tower in its midst, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and He looked for it to produce grapes. And it produced wild grapes.
And now 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 trampled down;
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Mowing
The Lord Jehovah made me see this: And behold, He is forming locusts at the beginning of the coming up of the late grass; even behold, the late grass after the king's mowings.
Agriculture or husbandry » Climate of canaan favorable to
For the land into which you go to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt from which you came out, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, like a garden of herbs. But the land which you are entering to possess it is a land of hills and valleys, drinking water from the rain of the heavens.
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The rights of redemption
The land shall not be sold forever; for the land is Mine. For you are strangers and pilgrims with Me. And in all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land. If your brother has become poor, and has sold his property, and if any of his relatives comes to redeem it, then he shall redeem that which his brother sold. read more.
And if the man has no redeemer, and he himself is able to redeem it, and he has enough for its redemption; then let him count the years of the sale of it, and restore the overplus to the man to whom he sold it, so that he may return to his possession. But if he is not able to restore to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that has bought it until the year of jubilee. And in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.
And if the man has no redeemer, and he himself is able to redeem it, and he has enough for its redemption; then let him count the years of the sale of it, and restore the overplus to the man to whom he sold it, so that he may return to his possession. But if he is not able to restore to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that has bought it until the year of jubilee. And in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.
Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Husbandmen
And he built towers in the desert, and dug many wells. For he had many cattle, both in the low country and in the plains. He also had husbandmen and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel. For he loved the earth.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to cut down crops of another
When you come into the standing grain of your neighbor, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not move a sickle into your neighbor's standing grain.
Agriculture or husbandry » Illustrative of the » Culture of the church
For of God we are fellow-workers, a field of God, and you are a building of God.
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » The ass
You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to covet the fields of another
And you shall not lust after your neighbor's wife, nor shall you covet your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is your neighbor's.
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » Oxen
You shall not muzzle an ox when he treads out the grain.
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, given as rent for land
Hear another parable. There was a certain housemaster who planted a vineyard and hedged it round about, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and rented it to vinedressers, and went into a far country. And when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers to receive its fruits.
Agriculture or husbandry » Contributes to the support of all
Agriculture or husbandry » Not to be engaged in during the sabbatical year
And you shall sow your land six years, and shall gather in the fruits of it. But the seventh year you shall let it rest and let it alone, so that the poor of your people may eat. And what they leave, the animals of the field shall eat. In the same way you shall deal with your vineyard and with your oliveyard.
Agriculture or husbandry » Rendered laborious by the curse on the earth
And to Adam He said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it! The ground is cursed for your sake. In pain shall you eat of it all the days of your life. It shall also bring forth thorns and thistles to you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » Allotments to each family
So the inheritance of the sons of Israel shall not be moved from tribe to tribe. For every one of the sons of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. And every daughter that possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the sons of Israel shall become a wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that the sons of Israel may each one enjoy the inheritance of his fathers. And the inheritance shall not move from one tribe to another tribe. But every one of the tribes of the sons of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The harrow
And he brought forth the people that were in it, and put them to the saw, and to sharp tools of iron, and to axes of iron. And he made them go over into the brick-kiln. And so he did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The plow
But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, each man to sharpen his plowshare, and his mattock, and his axe, and his coulter.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The fork
And there was the charge of a pim for the plowshares, and for the mattocks, and for the three-pronged forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the plowshares.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The axe
But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, each man to sharpen his plowshare, and his mattock, and his axe, and his coulter.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Weeding
He said to them, An enemy has done this. The servants said to him, Then do you want us to go and gather them up?
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Toil
It is right for the laboring farmer to partake first of the fruits.
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The prohibition against usury
If you lend money to one of My people who is poor beside you, you shall not be to him as a money-lender, neither shall you lay upon him interest.
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » Separation from other nations
For in what shall it be known that I and Your people have found grace in Your sight? Is it not in that You go with us? So we shall be separated, I and Your people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » Horses
Bread grain is crushed, but not always does one thresh it with threshing. And he drives the wheel of his cart; and his horses do not beat it small.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The teethed threshing instrument
Behold, I make you a new sharp threshing instrument, a master of teeth; you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills like chaff.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The flail, &c
For the dill is not threshed with a threshing instrument, nor is a cart wheel turned on cummin; but the dill is beaten out with a staff and the cummin with a rod.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The shovel
Also the oxen and the young asses that plow the ground shall eat clean fodder, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Wisdom
For his God instructs him to do right; his God teaches him.
Agriculture or husbandry » Man doomed to labor in, after the fall
therefore Jehovah God sent him out from the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he had been taken.
Agriculture or husbandry » The occupation of man before the fall
And Jehovah God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
Agriculture or husbandry » The cultivation of the earth
therefore Jehovah God sent him out from the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he had been taken.
Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Tillers of the ground
And she bore again, his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Against injuring the produce of
If fire breaks out and catches in thorns, so that the stacks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field, is burned up, he who kindled the fire shall surely repay in full.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Against the trespass of cattle
If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his animal, and shall feed in another man's field; he shall repay from the best of his own field, and the best of his own vineyard.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Stacking
If fire breaks out and catches in thorns, so that the stacks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field, is burned up, he who kindled the fire shall surely repay in full.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Reaping
And it shall be as reaping of the harvest grain, and his arm reaps the ears. And it shall be as he who gathers ears in the Valley of the Giants.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Gathering out the stones
And He fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with choice vines, and built a tower in its midst, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and He looked for it to produce grapes. And it produced wild grapes.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Patience in waiting
Therefore be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and the latter rain.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The sieve
For lo, I will command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, as one shakes with a sieve, yet not a grain shall fall to the earth.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Plowing
And there came a messenger to Job and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them.
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