Thematic Bible: Agriculture or husbandry
Thematic Bible
Agriculture or husbandry » Often performed by hirelings
Who is it, if he had a servant a plowing, or feeding cattle, that would say unto him when he were come from the field, 'Go quickly and sit down to meat.'
And he built towers in the wilderness and digged many wells. For he had much cattle, both in the valley and also in the plain; and plowmen and vinedressers in the mountains and in Carmel, for he loved husbandry.
And over the workmen in the fields that tilled the ground, was Ezri the son of Chelub.
When even was come, the Lord of the vineyard said unto his steward, 'Call the laborers, and give them their hire, beginning at the last, till thou come to the first.'
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Diligence in, abundantly recompensed
He that tilleth his land, shall have plenteousness of bread; but he that followeth idleness, is a very fool.
There is plenteousness of food in the fields of the poor; and shall be increased out of measure.
He that tilleth his land, shall have plenteousness of bread; but he that followeth idleness, shall have poverty enough.
For that earth which drinketh in the rain which cometh often upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them that dress it, receiveth blessing of God:
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The promises of God's blessings on
then I will send you rain in the right season and your land shall yield her increase and the trees of the field shall give their fruit.
and will love thee, bless thee and multiply thee: he will bless the fruit of thy womb and the fruit of thy field, thy corn, thy wine and thy oil, the fruit of thine oxen and the flocks of thy sheep in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
then he will give rain unto your land in due season, both the first rain and the latter, and thou shalt gather in thy corn, thy wine and thine oil. And he will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle: and thou shalt eat and fill thyself.
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, often blasted because of sin
And ten acres of vines shall give but a quart, and thirty bushels of seed shall give but an ephah.
At the same time all vineyards - though there be a thousand vines in one, and were sold for a thousand silverlings - shall be turned to briers and thorns.
They shall sow wheat, and reap thorns. They shall take heritage in possession, but it shall do them no good. And ye shall be confounded of your own winnings, because of the great wrath of the LORD."
The field shall be wasted, the land shall be in a miserable cause: for the corn shall be destroyed, the sweet wine shall come to confusion, and the oil utterly desolate. The husbandmen and the wine gardeners shall look piteously, and make lamentation for the wheat, wine and barley; and because the harvest upon the field is so clean destroyed.
Agriculture or husbandry » The jews loved and followed
And he departed thence and found Elisha the son of Shaphat plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelve. And Elijah went to him and cast his mantle upon him.
And the Angel of the LORD came and sat under an oak in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the father of the Abiezrites. And his son Gideon pressed out wheat out of the ears in a press, for to flee from the Midianites.
And he built towers in the wilderness and digged many wells. For he had much cattle, both in the valley and also in the plain; and plowmen and vinedressers in the mountains and in Carmel, for he loved husbandry.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Sowing
He that regardeth the wind, shall not sow; and he that hath respect unto the clouds, shall not reap.
O how happy shall ye be, when ye shall safely sow your seed beside all waters, and drive thither the feet of your oxen and asses.
And he spake many things to them in similitudes, saying, "Behold, the sower went forth to sow.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Planting
She considereth land, and buyeth it; with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
Moreover, he goeth out to hew down Cedar trees: He bringeth home Elms and Oaks, and other timber of the wood. Or else the Fir trees which he planted himself, and such as the rain hath swelled,
Thou shalt plant vines again upon the hills of Samaria, and the grape gathers shall plant and sing.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Watering
For the land whither thou goest to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt whence thou camest out, where thou sowedest thy seed and wateredest it with thy labour as a garden of herbs:
I have planted. Apollos watered. But God gave increase. So then, neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth: but God which gave the increase. He that planteth, and he that watereth, are neither better than the other. Every man yet shall receive his reward according to his labour.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Pruning
Every branch that beareth not fruit in me, he will take away. And every branch that beareth fruit will he purge, that it may bring more fruit.
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt cut thy vines and gather in thy fruits.
I will lay it waste, that it shall neither be twisted nor cut, but bear thorns and briers. I will also forbid the clouds, that they shall not rain upon it.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Diligence
Cease not thou therefore with thy hands to sow thy seed, whether it be in the morning or in the evening: for then knowest not whether this or that shall prosper, and if they both take, it is the better.
See that thou know the number of thy cattle thy self, and look well to thy flocks. For riches abide not away, and the crown endureth not forever. The hay groweth, the grass cometh up, and herbs are gathered in the mountains. read more.
The lambs shall clothe thee, and for the goats thou shalt have money to thy husbandry. Thou shalt have goats' milk enough to feed thee, to uphold thy household, and to sustain thy maidens.
The lambs shall clothe thee, and for the goats thou shalt have money to thy husbandry. Thou shalt have goats' milk enough to feed thee, to uphold thy household, and to sustain thy maidens.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The sickle
Then reckon the seven weeks, and begin to reckon the seven weeks when the sickle beginneth in the corn,
When thou goest into thy neighbour's corn, thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand, but thou mayest not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's corn.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to move landmarks
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's mark which they of old time have set in thine inheritance that thou inheritest in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to enjoy it.
Thou shalt not remove the landmark, which thy fore elders have set.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Digging
I will lay it waste, that it shall neither be twisted nor cut, but bear thorns and briers. I will also forbid the clouds, that they shall not rain upon it.
And he answered and said unto him, 'Lord let it alone this year also, till I dig round about it, and dung it,
The steward said within himself, 'What shall I do? For my master will take away from me the stewardship. I cannot dig, and to beg, I am ashamed.
Agriculture or husbandry » Soil of canaan suited to
Then Lot lift up his eyes, and beheld all the country about Jordan: that it was a plenteous country of water. For, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, it was round about Zoar, even as the pleasant garden of the LORD, and as the land of Egypt.
For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of rivers of water, of fountains and of springs that spring out both in valleys and hills: a land of wheat and of barley, of vines, fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees with oil and of honey: a land wherein thou shalt not eat bread in scarceness, and where thou shalt lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou shalt dig brass.
Agriculture or husbandry » War destructive to
Through thee I have scattered the shepherd and his flock, the husbandman and his cattle, the princes and the rulers.
They shall root out the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in Harvest. For fear of the sword of the enemy, every man shall get him to his own people, and every man shall flee to his own land.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Threshing
And the Angel of the LORD came and sat under an oak in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the father of the Abiezrites. And his son Gideon pressed out wheat out of the ears in a press, for to flee from the Midianites.
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Grafting
Though some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, art graft in among them, and made partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree; boast not thyself against the branches. For if thou boast thyself, remember that thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, "The branches are broken off, that I might be graft in."
For if thou wast cut out of a natural wild olive tree, and wast grafted contrary to nature in a true olive tree: how much more shall the natural branches be graffed in their own olive tree again?
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The cart
Now therefore make a new cart and take two milk kine, on whose neck never came yoke. And tie the kine in the cart, and bring the calves home from them.
For he treadeth not the fitches out with a waine, neither bringeth he the cart here and there over the cumin, but he thresheth the fitches out with a flail, and the cumin with a rod. As for the wheat, he grindeth it to make bread thereof; Inasmuch as he cannot bring it to pass with treading out. For neither the bruising that the cart wheels make, nor his beasts, can grind it.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Storing in barns
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither reap, nor yet carry into the barns, and yet your heavenly father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Let both grow together till harvest come: and in time of harvest, I will say to the reapers, Gather ye first the tares, and bind them in sheaves to be burnt: but gather the wheat into my barn.'"
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The mattock
And therefore must all Israel go down to the Philistines, to mend every man his share, his mattock, his axe or his sickle:
And as for all hills that now are hewn down, thou shalt not come upon them, for fear of briers and thorns. But the cattle shall be driven thither, and the sheep shall feed there."
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Manuring
For the hand of the LORD ceaseth upon this hill. But Moab shall be threshed down under him, like as the straw is trodden under feet in a dunghill.
Salt is good, but if salt have lost her saltiness, what shall be seasoned therewith? It is neither good for the land, nor yet for the dunghill, but men cast it out at the doors. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear."
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Binding
Behold, we were making sheaves in the field: and lo, my sheaf arose and stood upright, and yours stood round about and made obeisance to my sheaf."
Let both grow together till harvest come: and in time of harvest, I will say to the reapers, Gather ye first the tares, and bind them in sheaves to be burnt: but gather the wheat into my barn.'"
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, exported
And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand quarters of wheat to feed his household withal, and twenty butts of pure oil. And so much gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
Judah and the land of Israel occupied with thee, and brought unto thy markets, wheat, balm, honey, oil and treacle.
Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Laborers
Then said he to his disciples, "The harvest is great, but the laborers are few:
For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a householder which went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The fan
Which hath also his fan in his hand, and will purge his floor, and gather the wheat into His garner; and will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire."
yea, thine oxen and Mules that till the ground, shall eat good fodder which is purged with the fan.
Agriculture or husbandry » The labor of, supposed to be lessened by noah
And Noah, being a husbandman, went forth and planted a vineyard,
and called him Noah, saying, "This same shall comfort us: as concerning our work and sorrow of our hands which we have about the earth that the LORD hath cursed."
Agriculture or husbandry » Peace favorable to
And he shall be judge among the heathen and tell many nations their faults. And they shall turn their swords into mattocks and their spears into scythes. One nation shall not lift up a sword against another, neither shall they teach to war any more.
Agriculture or husbandry » Illustrative of the » Culture of the heart
For thus sayeth the LORD, to all Judah and Jerusalem, "Plow your land, and sow not among the thorns.
that they might sow unto righteousness, and reap the fruits of well doing: that they might plow up their fresh land and seek the LORD, till he came, and learned them righteousness.
Agriculture or husbandry » Patriarchs engaged in
And Noah, being a husbandman, went forth and planted a vineyard,
And she proceeded forth and bare his brother Abel: And Abel became a shepherd, and Cain became a plowman.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Gleaning
When ye reap down the ripe corn of your land, ye shall not reap down the utmost borders of your fields, neither shalt thou gather that which is left behind in thy harvest.
And she went and came and gathered after the harvest men, and her chance was that part of the field pertained unto Boaz which was of the kindred of Elimelech.
Agriculture or husbandry » The providence of God to be acknowledged in the produce of
They think not in their hearts, 'O let us fear the LORD our God, that giveth us rain, early and late, when need is: which keepeth ever still the harvest for us yearly.'
And she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold: which they bestowed upon Baal.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Harrowing
Canst thou bind the yoke about him in thy furrows, to make him plow after thee in the valleys?
Goeth not the husbandman ever in due season earnestly to his land? He moweth and ploweth his ground to sow.
Agriculture or husbandry » Grief occasioned by the failure of the fruits of
The husbandmen and the wine gardeners shall look piteously, and make lamentation for the wheat, wine and barley; and because the harvest upon the field is so clean destroyed.
"'If no,' sayeth the LORD God, the God of hosts, 'there shall be mourning in all streets. Yea, they shall say in every street: alas, alas. They shall call the husbandman to lamentation; and such as can mourn, to mourning. In all vineyards there shall be heaviness, for I will come among you,' sayeth the LORD.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The pruning-hook
For before the harvest, when the branch is grown, there shall come ripe fruit out of the flower: and he shall cut down the increase with the scythes, and the branches shall he take away with hooks.
Make you swords of your plowshares, and spears of your sickles and scythes. Let the weak man say, "I am strong."
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Winnowing
For now this Boaz our kinsman with whose maidens thou wast, winnoweth his barley tonight in the threshing floor:
Which hath also his fan in his hand, and will purge his floor, and gather the wheat into His garner; and will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire."
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Hedging
This he hedged, this he walled round about, and planted it with goodly grapes. In the midst of it builded he a tower, and made a wine press therein. And afterward when he looked that it should bring him grapes, it brought forth thorns.
Well, now I shall tell you how I will do with my vineyard: I will take the hedge from it, that it may perish, and break down the wall, that it may be trodden under foot.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Mowing
whereof the mower filleth not his hand, neither he that bindeth up the sheaves his bosom.
The LORD God showed me such a vision: behold, there stood one that made grasshoppers, even when the corn was shooting forth, after the king had clipped his sheep.
Agriculture or husbandry » Climate of canaan favorable to
For the land whither thou goest to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt whence thou camest out, where thou sowedest thy seed and wateredest it with thy labour as a garden of herbs: but the land whither ye go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys and drinketh water of the rain of heaven,
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The rights of redemption
Wherefore the land shall not be sold forever, because that the land is mine, and ye but strangers and sojourners with me: and ye shall, throughout all the land of your possession, let the land go home free again. "'When thy brother is waxed poor and hath sold away of his possession: if any of his kin come to redeem it, he shall buy out that which his brother sold. read more.
And though he have no man to redeem it for him, yet if his hand can get sufficient to buy it out again, then let him count how long it hath been sold, and deliver the rest unto him to whom he sold it, and so he shall return unto his possession again. But and if his hand can not get sufficient to restore it to him again, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it, until the horn year: and in the horn year it shall come out, and he shall return unto his possession again.
And though he have no man to redeem it for him, yet if his hand can get sufficient to buy it out again, then let him count how long it hath been sold, and deliver the rest unto him to whom he sold it, and so he shall return unto his possession again. But and if his hand can not get sufficient to restore it to him again, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it, until the horn year: and in the horn year it shall come out, and he shall return unto his possession again.
Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Husbandmen
And he built towers in the wilderness and digged many wells. For he had much cattle, both in the valley and also in the plain; and plowmen and vinedressers in the mountains and in Carmel, for he loved husbandry.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to cut down crops of another
When thou goest into thy neighbour's corn, thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand, but thou mayest not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's corn.
Agriculture or husbandry » Illustrative of the » Culture of the church
We are God's laborers: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » The ass
Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to covet the fields of another
'Thou shalt not lust after thy neighbour's wife: thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, field, servant, maid, ox, ass nor ought that is thy neighbour's.'
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » Oxen
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, given as rent for land
"Hearken another similitude. There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and made a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a strange country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, to receive the fruits of it,
Agriculture or husbandry » Contributes to the support of all
The whole land also with the fields and all that is therein, is in subjection and bondage unto the king.
Agriculture or husbandry » Not to be engaged in during the sabbatical year
"Six years thou shalt sow thy land and gather in the fruits thereof: and the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still, that the poor of thy people may eat, and what they leave, the beasts of the field shall eat: In like manner thou shalt do with thy vineyard and thine olive trees.
Agriculture or husbandry » Rendered laborious by the curse on the earth
And unto Adam he said, "Forasmuch as thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying 'See thou eat not thereof' cursed be the earth for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat thereof all days of thy life: and it shall bear thorns and thistles unto thee. And thou shalt eat the herbs of the field: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return unto the earth whence thou wast taken: for earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou return."
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » Allotments to each family
that the inheritance of the children of Israel roll not from tribe to tribe. But that the children of Israel may abide, every man, in the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. And every daughter that possesseth any inheritance among the tribes of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the kindred of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his father, and that the inheritance go not from one tribe to another: but that the tribes of the children of Israel may abide, every man, in his own inheritance.'"
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The harrow
And he brought out the people that was therein and sawed them and drew harrows of iron upon them, and shred some of them with shredding knives of iron, and thrust some into furnaces. And so he served all the cities of the children of Ammon. And then David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The plow
And therefore must all Israel go down to the Philistines, to mend every man his share, his mattock, his axe or his sickle:
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The fork
as oft as the edges of the sickles, mattocks, dung forks, and axes were blunt, and also to mend their goods.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The axe
And therefore must all Israel go down to the Philistines, to mend every man his share, his mattock, his axe or his sickle:
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Weeding
But he said to them, 'The envious man hath done this.' Then the servants said unto him, 'Wilt thou then that we go and weed them out?'
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Toil
The husbandman that laboureth must first receive of the fruits.
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The prohibition against usury
If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be as an usurer unto him, neither shalt oppress him with usury.
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » Separation from other nations
for how shall it be known now that both I and thy people have found favour in thy sight, but in that thou goest with us: that both I and thy people have a preeminence before all the people that are upon the face of the earth."
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » Horses
As for the wheat, he grindeth it to make bread thereof; Inasmuch as he cannot bring it to pass with treading out. For neither the bruising that the cart wheels make, nor his beasts, can grind it.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The teethed threshing instrument
Behold, I will make thee a treading cart and a new flail, that thou mayest thresh and grind the mountains, and bring the hills to powder.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The flail, &c
For he treadeth not the fitches out with a waine, neither bringeth he the cart here and there over the cumin, but he thresheth the fitches out with a flail, and the cumin with a rod.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The shovel
yea, thine oxen and Mules that till the ground, shall eat good fodder which is purged with the fan.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Wisdom
And that he may do it right, his God teacheth him and showeth him.
Agriculture or husbandry » Man doomed to labor in, after the fall
and the LORD God cast him out of the garden of Eden, to till the earth whence he was taken.
Agriculture or husbandry » The occupation of man before the fall
And the LORD God took Adam and put him in the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it.
Agriculture or husbandry » The cultivation of the earth
and the LORD God cast him out of the garden of Eden, to till the earth whence he was taken.
Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Tillers of the ground
And she proceeded forth and bare his brother Abel: And Abel became a shepherd, and Cain became a plowman.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Against injuring the produce of
"If fire break out and catch in the thorns, so that the stacks of corn or the standing corn or field be consumed therewith: he that kindled the fire shall make restitution.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Against the trespass of cattle
If a man do hurt field or vineyard, so that he put in his beast to 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
"If fire break out and catch in the thorns, so that the stacks of corn or the standing corn or field be consumed therewith: he that kindled the fire shall make restitution.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Reaping
And he shall be as one that gathereth up corn in the harvest, which cutteth his handful with the sickle, and when one gathereth the sheaves together in the valley, of Rephaim.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Gathering out the stones
This he hedged, this he walled round about, and planted it with goodly grapes. In the midst of it builded he a tower, and made a wine press therein. And afterward when he looked that it should bring him grapes, it brought forth thorns.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Patience in waiting
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience there upon, until he receive the early and the latter rain.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The sieve
For lo, this I promise: though I sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as they use to sift in a sieve: yet shall not the smallest gravel stone fall upon the earth.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Plowing
there came a messenger unto Job, and said, "While the oxen were a plowing, and the asses going in the pasture beside them,
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