Thematic Bible: Agriculture or husbandry
Thematic Bible
Agriculture or husbandry » Often performed by hirelings
But, who is he of you -- having a servant ploughing or feeding -- who, to him having come in out of the field, will say, Having come near, recline at meat?
and he buildeth towers in the wilderness, and diggeth many wells, for he had much cattle, both in the low country and in the plain, husbandmen and vine-dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel; for he was a lover of the ground.
And evening having come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the workmen, and pay them the reward, having begun from the last -- unto the first.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Diligence in, abundantly recompensed
Whoso is tilling the ground is satisfied with bread, And whoso is pursuing vanities is lacking heart,
Abundance of food -- the tillage of the poor, And substance is consumed without judgment.
Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied with bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled with poverty.
For earth, that is drinking in the rain many times coming upon it, and is bringing forth herbs fit for those because of whom also it is dressed, doth partake of blessing from God,
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The promises of God's blessings on
then I have given your rains in their season, and the land hath given her produce, and the tree of the field doth give its fruit;
and hath loved thee, and blessed thee, and multiplied thee, and hath blessed the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, thy corn, and thy new wine, and thine oil, the increase of thine oxen, and the wealth of thy flock, on the ground which He hath sworn to thy fathers to give to thee.
that I have given the rain of your land in its season -- sprinkling and gathered -- and thou hast gathered thy corn, and thy new wine, and thine oil, and I have given herbs in thy field for thy cattle, and thou hast eaten, and been satisfied.
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, often blasted because of sin
For ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer of seed yieldeth an ephah.
And it hath come to pass, in that day, Every place where there are a thousand vines, At a thousand silverlings, Is for briers and for thorns.
They sowed wheat, and have thorns reaped, They have become sick -- they profit not, And they have been ashamed of your increases, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah.
Spoiled is the field, mourned hath the ground, For spoiled is the corn, Dried up hath been new wine, languish doth oil. Be ashamed, ye husbandmen, Howl, vine-dressers, for wheat and for barley, For perished hath the harvest of the field.
Agriculture or husbandry » The jews loved and followed
And he goeth thence, and findeth Elisha son of Shaphat, and he is plowing; twelve yoke are before him, and he is with the twelfth; and Elijah passeth over unto him, and casteth his robe upon him,
And the messenger of Jehovah cometh and sitteth under the oak which is in Ophrah, which is to Joash the Abi-Ezrite, and Gideon his son is beating out wheat in the wine-press, to remove it from the presence of the Midianites;
and he buildeth towers in the wilderness, and diggeth many wells, for he had much cattle, both in the low country and in the plain, husbandmen and vine-dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel; for he was a lover of the ground.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Sowing
Whoso is observing the wind soweth not, And whoso is looking on the thick clouds reapeth not.
and he spake to them many things in similes, saying: 'Lo, the sower went forth to sow,
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Planting
She hath considered a field, and taketh it, From the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard.
Cutting down to himself cedars, He taketh also a cypress, and an oak, And he strengtheneth it for himself Among the trees of a forest, He hath planted an ash, and the shower doth nourish it.
Again thou dost plant vineyards In mountains of Samaria, Planters have planted, and made common.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Watering
'For the land whither thou art going in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt whence ye have come out, where thou sowest thy seed, and hast watered with thy foot, as a garden of the green herb;
I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth; so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God; and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each his own reward shall receive, according to his own labour,
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Pruning
every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;
'Six years thou dost sow thy field, and six years thou dost prune thy vineyard, and hast gathered its increase,
And I make it a waste, It is not pruned, nor arranged, And gone up have brier and thorn, And on the thick clouds I lay a charge, From raining upon it rain.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Diligence
In the morning sow thy seed, And at even withdraw not thy hand, For thou knowest not which is right, this or that, Or whether both of them alike are good.
Know well the face of thy flock, Set thy heart to the droves, For riches are not to the age, Nor a crown to generation and generation. Revealed was the hay, and seen the tender grass, And gathered the herbs of mountains. read more.
Lambs are for thy clothing, And the price of the field are he-goats, And a sufficiency of goats' milk is for thy bread, For bread to thy house, and life to thy damsels!
Lambs are for thy clothing, And the price of the field are he-goats, And a sufficiency of goats' milk is for thy bread, For bread to thy house, and life to thy damsels!
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The sickle
'Seven weeks thou dost number to thee; from the beginning of the sickle among the standing corn thou dost begin to number seven weeks,
When thou comest in among the standing-corn of thy neighbour, then thou hast plucked the ears with thy hand, but a sickle thou dost not wave over the standing-corn of thy neighbour.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to move landmarks
'Thou dost not remove a border of thy neighbour, which they of former times have made, in thine inheritance, which thou dost inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it.
Remove not a border of olden times, That thy fathers have made.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Digging
And I make it a waste, It is not pruned, nor arranged, And gone up have brier and thorn, And on the thick clouds I lay a charge, From raining upon it rain.
'And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung;
And the steward said in himself, What shall I do, because my lord doth take away the stewardship from me? to dig I am not able, to beg I am ashamed: --
Agriculture or husbandry » Soil of canaan suited to
And Lot lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the whole circuit of the Jordan that it is all a watered country (before Jehovah's destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, as Jehovah's garden, as the land of Egypt,) in thy coming toward Zoar,
'For Jehovah thy God is bringing thee in unto a good land, a land of brooks of waters, of fountains, and of depths coming out in valley and in mountain: a land of wheat, and barley, and vine, and fig, and pomegranate; a land of oil olive and honey; a land in which without scarcity thou dost eat bread, thou dost not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of its mountains thou dost dig brass;
Agriculture or husbandry » War destructive to
And I have broken in pieces by thee shepherd and his drove, And I have broken in pieces by thee husbandman and his team, And I have broken in pieces by thee governors and prefects.
Cut off the sower from Babylon, And him handling the sickle in the time of harvest, Because of the oppressing sword, Each unto his people -- they turn, And each to his land -- they flee.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Threshing
And the messenger of Jehovah cometh and sitteth under the oak which is in Ophrah, which is to Joash the Abi-Ezrite, and Gideon his son is beating out wheat in the wine-press, to remove it from the presence of the Midianites;
'Thou dost not muzzle an ox in its threshing.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Grafting
And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become -- do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee! Thou wilt say, then, 'The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right!
for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The cart
'And now, take and make one new cart, and two suckling kine, on which a yoke hath not gone up, and ye have bound the kine in the cart, and caused their young ones to turn back from after them to the house,
For not with a sharp-pointed thing threshed are fitches, And the wheel of a cart on cummin turned round, For with a staff beaten out are fitches, And cummin with a rod. Bread -corn is beaten small, For not for ever doth he sorely thresh it, Nor crushed it hath a wheel of his cart, Nor do his hoofs beat it small.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Storing in barns
look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they?
suffer both to grow together till the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the darnel, and bind it in bundles, to burn it, and the wheat gather up into my storehouse.'
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The mattock
and all Israel go down to the Philistines, to sharpen each his ploughshare, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock;
And all the hills that with a mattock are kept in order, Thither cometh not the fear of brier and thorn, And it hath been for the sending forth of ox, And for the treading of sheep!'
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Manuring
For rest doth the hand of Jehovah on this mountain, And trodden down is Moab under Him, As trodden down is straw on a dunghill.
The salt is good, but if the salt doth become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned? neither for land nor for manure is it fit -- they cast it without. He who is having ears to hear -- let him hear.'
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Binding
that, lo, we are binding bundles in the midst of the field, and lo, my bundle hath arisen, and hath also stood up, and lo, your bundles are round about, and bow themselves to my bundle.'
suffer both to grow together till the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the darnel, and bind it in bundles, to burn it, and the wheat gather up into my storehouse.'
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, exported
and Solomon hath given to Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat, food for his house, and twenty cors of beaten oil; thus doth Solomon give to Hiram year by year.
Judah and the land of Israel -- they are thy merchants, For wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, And honey, and oil, and balm, They have given out thy merchandise.
Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Laborers
then saith he to his disciples, 'The harvest indeed is abundant, but the workmen few;
'For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard,
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The fan
whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather his wheat to the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'
And the oxen and the young asses serving the ground, Fermented provender do eat, That one is winnowing with shovel and fan.
Agriculture or husbandry » The labor of, supposed to be lessened by noah
And Noah remaineth a man of the ground, and planteth a vineyard,
and calleth his name Noah, saying, 'This one doth comfort us concerning our work, and concerning the labour of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed.'
Agriculture or husbandry » Peace favorable to
And dwelt in Judah have husbandmen, and in all its cities together, And they have journeyed in order.
And He hath judged between the nations, And hath given a decision to many peoples, And they have beat their swords to ploughshares, And their spears to pruning-hooks, Nation doth not lift up sword unto nation, Nor do they learn any more -- war.
Agriculture or husbandry » Illustrative of the » Culture of the heart
For thus said Jehovah, To the man of Judah, and to Jerusalem: Till for yourselves tillage, And do not sow unto the thorns.
Sow for yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to loving-kindness, Till for yourselves tillage of knowledge, To seek Jehovah, Till he come and shew righteousness to you.
Agriculture or husbandry » Patriarchs engaged in
And Noah remaineth a man of the ground, and planteth a vineyard,
and she addeth to bear his brother, even Abel. And Abel is feeding a flock, and Cain hath been servant of the ground.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Gleaning
'And in your reaping the harvest of your land ye do not completely reap the corner of thy field, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou dost not gather,
And she goeth and cometh and gathereth in a field after the reapers, and her chance happeneth -- the portion of the field is Boaz's who is of the family of Elimelech.
Agriculture or husbandry » The providence of God to be acknowledged in the produce of
And they have not said in their heart, 'Let us fear, we pray you, Jehovah our God, who is giving rain, The sprinkling and the gathered, in its season, The appointed weeks of harvest He keepeth for us.'
And she knew not that I had given to her, The corn, and the new wine, and the oil. Yea, silver I did multiply to her, And the gold they prepared for Baal.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Harrowing
Dost thou bind a Reem in a furrow with his thick band? Doth he harrow valleys after thee?
The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!
Agriculture or husbandry » Grief occasioned by the failure of the fruits of
Be ashamed, ye husbandmen, Howl, vine-dressers, for wheat and for barley, For perished hath the harvest of the field.
Therefore, thus said Jehovah, God of Hosts, the Lord, In all broad places is lamentation, And in all out-places they say, 'Alas, alas,' And called the husbandman to mourning, And to lamentation the skilful of wailing. And in all vineyards is lamentation, For I pass into thy midst, said Jehovah.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The pruning-hook
For before harvest, when the flower is perfect, And the blossom is producing unripe fruit, Then hath one cut the sprigs with pruning hooks, And the branches he hath turned aside, cut down.
Beat your ploughshares to swords, And your pruning-hooks to javelins, Let the weak say, 'I am mighty.'
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Winnowing
and now, is not Boaz of our acquaintance, with whose young women thou hast been? lo, he is winnowing the threshing-floor of barley to-night,
whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather his wheat to the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Hedging
And he fenceth it, and casteth out its stones, And planteth it with a choice vine, And buildeth a tower in its midst, And also a wine press hath hewn out in it, And he waiteth for the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!
And now, pray, let me cause you to know, That which I am doing to my vineyard, To turn aside its hedge, And it hath been for consumption, To break down its wall, And it hath been for a treading-place.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Mowing
Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and lo, He is forming locusts at the beginning of the ascending of the latter growth, and lo, the latter growth is after the mowings of the king;
Agriculture or husbandry » Climate of canaan favorable to
'For the land whither thou art going in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt whence ye have come out, where thou sowest thy seed, and hast watered with thy foot, as a garden of the green herb; but the land whither ye are passing over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys; of the rain of the heavens it drinketh water;
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The rights of redemption
And the land is not sold -- to extinction, for the land is Mine, for sojourners and settlers are ye with Me; and in all the land of your possession a redemption ye do give to the land. 'When thy brother becometh poor, and hath sold his possession, then hath his redeemer who is near unto him come, and he hath redeemed the sold thing of his brother; read more.
and when a man hath no redeemer, and his own hand hath attained, and he hath found as sufficient for its redemption, then he hath reckoned the years of its sale, and hath given back that which is over to the man to whom he sold it, and he hath returned to his possession. 'And if his hand hath not found sufficiency to give back to him, then hath his sold thing been in the hand of him who buyeth it till the year of jubilee; and it hath gone out in the jubilee, and he hath returned to his possession.
and when a man hath no redeemer, and his own hand hath attained, and he hath found as sufficient for its redemption, then he hath reckoned the years of its sale, and hath given back that which is over to the man to whom he sold it, and he hath returned to his possession. 'And if his hand hath not found sufficiency to give back to him, then hath his sold thing been in the hand of him who buyeth it till the year of jubilee; and it hath gone out in the jubilee, and he hath returned to his possession.
Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Husbandmen
and he buildeth towers in the wilderness, and diggeth many wells, for he had much cattle, both in the low country and in the plain, husbandmen and vine-dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel; for he was a lover of the ground.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to cut down crops of another
When thou comest in among the standing-corn of thy neighbour, then thou hast plucked the ears with thy hand, but a sickle thou dost not wave over the standing-corn of thy neighbour.
Agriculture or husbandry » Illustrative of the » Culture of the church
for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » The ass
'Thou dost not plow with an ox and with an ass together.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to covet the fields of another
Thou dost not desire thy neighbour's wife; nor dost thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, and his man-servant, and his handmaid, his ox, and his ass, and anything which is thy neighbour's.
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » Oxen
'Thou dost not muzzle an ox in its threshing.
Agriculture or husbandry » Produce of, given as rent for land
'Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad. 'And when the season of the fruits came nigh, he sent his servants unto the husbandmen, to receive the fruits of it,
Agriculture or husbandry » Contributes to the support of all
Agriculture or husbandry » Not to be engaged in during the sabbatical year
'And six years thou dost sow thy land, and hast gathered its increase; and the seventh thou dost release it, and hast left it, and the needy of thy people have eaten, and their leaving doth the beast of the field eat; so dost thou to thy vineyard -- to thine olive-yard.
Agriculture or husbandry » Rendered laborious by the curse on the earth
And to the man He said, 'Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed is the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life, and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field; by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust thou turnest back.'
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » Allotments to each family
and the inheritance of the sons of Israel doth not turn round from tribe unto tribe; for each to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers, do the sons of Israel cleave. 'And every daughter possessing an inheritance, of the tribes of the sons of Israel, is to one of the family of the tribe of her father for a wife, so that the sons of Israel possess each the inheritance of his fathers, and the inheritance doth not turn round from one tribe to another tribe; for each to his inheritance do they cleave, the tribes of the sons of Israel.'
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The harrow
and the people who are in it he hath brought out, and setteth to the saw, and to cutting instruments of iron, and to axes of iron, and hath caused them to pass over into the brick-kiln; and so he doth to all the cities of the Bene-Ammon; and David turneth back, and all the people, to Jerusalem.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The plow
and all Israel go down to the Philistines, to sharpen each his ploughshare, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock;
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The fork
and there hath been the file for mattocks, and for coulters, and for three-pronged rakes, and for the axes, and to set up the goads.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The axe
and all Israel go down to the Philistines, to sharpen each his ploughshare, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock;
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Weeding
And he saith to them, A man, an enemy, did this; and the servants said to him, Wilt thou, then, that having gone away we may gather it up?
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Toil
the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake;
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » The prohibition against usury
'If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;
Agriculture or husbandry » Was promoted amongst the jews, by » Separation from other nations
and in what is it known now, that I have found grace in Thine eyes -- I and Thy people -- is it not in Thy going with us? and we have been distinguished -- I and Thy people -- from all the people who are on the face of the ground.'
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » Horses
Bread -corn is beaten small, For not for ever doth he sorely thresh it, Nor crushed it hath a wheel of his cart, Nor do his hoofs beat it small.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The teethed threshing instrument
Lo, I have set thee for a new sharp threshing instrument, Possessing teeth, thou threshest mountains, And beatest small, and hills as chaff thou makest.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The flail, &c
For not with a sharp-pointed thing threshed are fitches, And the wheel of a cart on cummin turned round, For with a staff beaten out are fitches, And cummin with a rod.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The shovel
And the oxen and the young asses serving the ground, Fermented provender do eat, That one is winnowing with shovel and fan.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Wisdom
And instruct him for judgment doth his God, He doth direct him.
Agriculture or husbandry » Man doomed to labor in, after the fall
Jehovah God sendeth him forth from the garden of Eden to serve the ground from which he hath been taken;
Agriculture or husbandry » The occupation of man before the fall
And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.
Agriculture or husbandry » The cultivation of the earth
Jehovah God sendeth him forth from the garden of Eden to serve the ground from which he hath been taken;
Agriculture or husbandry » Persons engaged in, called » Tillers of the ground
and she addeth to bear his brother, even Abel. And Abel is feeding a flock, and Cain hath been servant of the ground.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Against injuring the produce of
'When fire goeth forth, and hath found thorns, and a stack, or the standing corn, or the field, hath been consumed, he who causeth the burning doth certainly repay.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Against the trespass of cattle
When a man depastureth a field or vineyard, and hath sent out his beast, and it hath pastured in the field of another, of the best of his field, and the best of his vineyard, he doth repay.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Stacking
'When fire goeth forth, and hath found thorns, and a stack, or the standing corn, or the field, hath been consumed, he who causeth the burning doth certainly repay.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Reaping
And it hath come to pass, As the gathering by the reaper of the standing corn, And his arm the ears reapeth, And it hath come to pass, As the gathering of the ears in the valley of Rephaim,
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Gathering out the stones
And he fenceth it, and casteth out its stones, And planteth it with a choice vine, And buildeth a tower in its midst, And also a wine press hath hewn out in it, And he waiteth for the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Patience in waiting
Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain -- early and latter;
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The sieve
For lo, I am commanding, And I have shaken among all the nations the house of Israel, As one doth shake with a sieve, And there falleth not a grain to the earth.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Plowing
And a messenger hath come in unto Job and saith, 'The oxen have been plowing, and the she-asses feeding by their sides,
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