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So Naomi came back from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. They arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest. Verse ConceptsBarleyGrainHarvestAutumnIndividuals going home



“When you reap the harvest in your field, and you forget a sheaf in the field, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. Verse ConceptsForeignersBinding cornBereaved, Care ForGrainOrphansSowing And ReapingWidowsAutumnAliensSuccess And Hard Work

Isn’t the wheat harvest today? I will call on the Lord and He will send thunder and rain, so that you will know and see what a great evil you committed in the Lord’s sight by requesting a king for yourselves.” Verse ConceptsHarvestGod's People Sinning

and handed them over to the Gibeonites. They hanged them on the hill in the presence of the Lord; the seven of them died together. They were executed in the first days of the harvest at the beginning of the barley harvest. Verse ConceptsCriminalsMaternal LoveGrainAutumnPeople Hung To Death


Like snow in summer and rain at harvest,
honor is inappropriate for a fool.
Verse ConceptsHarvestSeasonsSummerAccoladesSnowThe Honourable Will Be HonouredUnfitting ThingsFools

Now isn’t Boaz our relative? Haven’t you been working with his female servants? This evening he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsGrainWinnowingRelatives

The Angel of the Lord came, and He sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the wine vat in order to hide it from the Midianites. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsAppearances Of God In OtGrainThreshingWheatWinepressWarriorsOaksActing In Secretgideon

Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel. His four sons, who were with him, hid themselves. Verse ConceptsThreshingFour PeopleHiding From God

Certainly black cumin is not threshed
with a threshing board,
and a cart wheel is not rolled over the cumin.
But black cumin is beaten out with a stick,
and cumin with a rod.
Verse ConceptsHerbs And SpicesSticksCummin

For it is written in the law of Moses, Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain. Is God really concerned with oxen? Verse ConceptsMoses, Significance OfThreshingMuzzlingAnimals, God's Care OfOxenSealing ThingsBinding As AnimalsWritten In The Lawthe Law of mosesPerspectivemuscles

Elijah left there and found Elisha son of Shaphat as he was plowing. Twelve teams of oxen were in front of him, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah walked by him and threw his mantle over him. Verse ConceptsFarmersCloaksCovering The BodyYokesCultivationPloughingOuter GarmentsPloughmenTwelve Animals

a messenger came to Job and reported: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys grazing nearby, Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsMessengerPloughingTilling The SoilAnimals Eating


“Which one of you having a slave tending sheep or plowing will say to him when he comes in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’? Verse ConceptsPloughingSittingReclining To EatPloughmenStock Keepingservanthood

Or isn’t He really saying it for us? Yes, this is written for us, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes should do so in hope of sharing the crop. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, Qualities NeededHope, Nature OfPloughingCultivationPloughmenOther Scriptures FulfilledSharing Material ThingsFor The Sake Of God's People

You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident; I am Yahweh your God. Verse ConceptsGrapesOppression, God's Attitude ToPoverty, Remedies ForRightsVineyardStrangersGleaningLoving ForeignersThe Lord Is GodLaws About AgricultureAliens

When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap all the way to the edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident; I am Yahweh your God.” Verse ConceptsGleaningForeignersethics, socialHarvestLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityPoverty, Remedies ForSowing And ReapingAliens, Believers DutyCapitalismStrangersLoving ForeignersThe Lord Is GodLaws About AgricultureEconomicsThe poorStrangers in israelImmigrantsAliensFarmingFeeding The Poor

Ruth the Moabitess asked Naomi, “Will you let me go into the fields and gather fallen grain behind someone who allows me to?”

Naomi answered her, “Go ahead, my daughter.” Verse ConceptsGleaning

Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Don’t go and gather grain in another field, and don’t leave this one, but stay here close to my female servants. Verse ConceptsLiving Together

Ruth stayed close to Boaz’s female servants and gathered grain until the barley and the wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law. Verse ConceptsWheatLiving Together

For the land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated by hand as in a vegetable garden. Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalWater IrrigationRivers And StreamsArtificialnessNot Like ThingsFeet In ActionGardensHerbsland

I made gardens and parks for myself and planted every kind of fruit tree in them. Verse ConceptsOrchardsGardens


“When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, RestrictionsBinding cornHarvestGleaningLaws About Agriculture

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest, you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest. Verse ConceptsSpringBinding cornInvasions

You are not to reap what grows by itself from your crop, or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. It must be a year of complete rest for the land.


Those who sow seed are happy
beside abundant waters;
they let ox and donkey range freely.
Verse ConceptsCowsPlanting SeedsSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

Then He told them many things in parables, saying: “Consider the sower who went out to sow. Verse ConceptsParables Of ChristJesus Using ParablesFarmingSowing Seeds

May he be like rain that falls on the cut grass,
like spring showers that water the earth.
Verse ConceptsRainWeather, As God's JudgmentHoly Spirit, Types OfShowersMowingMetaphorical WateringLike Grass

and can’t even fill the hands of the reaper
or the arms of the one who binds sheaves.
Verse ConceptsArmsMowingNot Reaping What You Sow

The Lord God showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the time the spring crop first began to sprout—after the cutting of the king’s hay. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsCropsLocustsMowingDestruction Of PlantsAttitudes Towards Kings


He cuts down cedars for his use,
or he takes a cypress or an oak.
He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest.
He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
Verse ConceptsTreesFelling Treeswoodworkingtoughness

There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the field. Suddenly my sheaf stood up, and your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.” Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsBinding cornGrainJoining ThingsBowing Before JosephReapingPeople Getting Upvulnerability

Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I’ll tell the reapers: Gather the weeds first and tie them in bundles to burn them, but store the wheat in my barn.’” Verse ConceptsBinding cornHarvestSicklesBindingEternal JudgmentMixed MultitudeJoining ThingsGathering FoodBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesPlants Growing UpGrowing

Now isn’t Boaz our relative? Haven’t you been working with his female servants? This evening he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsGrainWinnowingRelatives

His winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn. But the chaff He will burn up with fire that never goes out.” Verse ConceptsHell, Description OfNames For HeavenHell, As An ExperienceForksSin, God's Judgment OnThreshing FloorToolsWinnowingWicked Described AsEternal JudgmentLight As ChaffReapingBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesWeed

Can you hold the wild ox to a furrow by its harness?
Will it plow the valleys behind you?
Verse ConceptsTilling The SoilUnicorns


Those who sow seed are happy
beside abundant waters;
they let ox and donkey range freely.
Verse ConceptsCowsPlanting SeedsSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

Then He told them many things in parables, saying: “Consider the sower who went out to sow. Verse ConceptsParables Of ChristJesus Using ParablesFarmingSowing Seeds


He cuts down cedars for his use,
or he takes a cypress or an oak.
He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest.
He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
Verse ConceptsTreesFelling Treeswoodworkingtoughness

You will plant vineyards again
on the mountains of Samaria;
the planters will plant and will enjoy the fruit.
Verse ConceptsEnjoyment, Material ThingsOccupationsSamaritansSowing And ReapingPlanting VineyardsLiteral PlantingFarming

For the land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated by hand as in a vegetable garden. Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalWater IrrigationRivers And StreamsArtificialnessNot Like ThingsFeet In ActionGardensHerbsland

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. Now the one who plants and the one who waters are equal, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.


You may sow your field for six years, and you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce for six years. Verse ConceptsCropsPruningSix YearsLiteral Planting

I will make it a wasteland.
It will not be pruned or weeded;
thorns and briers will grow up.
I will also give orders to the clouds
that rain should not fall on it.
Verse ConceptsBriersAgriculture, TermsPruningCommands, in OTdrought, physicalRainCultivationLack Of RainFallow Land

I will make it a wasteland.
It will not be pruned or weeded;
thorns and briers will grow up.
I will also give orders to the clouds
that rain should not fall on it.
Verse ConceptsBriersAgriculture, TermsPruningCommands, in OTdrought, physicalRainCultivationLack Of RainFallow Land


“Then the manager said to himself, ‘What should I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig; I’m ashamed to beg. Verse ConceptsDestitutesBeggarsLordship, Human And DivinePoverty, Causes OfBeggingWorldly DilemmasExcavationSoliloquyShame Of Bad ConductWithout StrengthDeposingMoney Management

The Angel of the Lord came, and He sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the wine vat in order to hide it from the Midianites. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsAppearances Of God In OtGrainThreshingWheatWinepressWarriorsOaksActing In Secretgideon


Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them, and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree, do not brag that you are better than those branches. But if you do brag-you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you. Then you will say, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in."

For if you were cut off from your native wild olive and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these—the natural branches—be grafted into their own olive tree? Verse ConceptsOlivesParticipation, In ChristTreesCutting Off BranchesJoined To The ChurchOlive Treescutting


Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I’ll tell the reapers: Gather the weeds first and tie them in bundles to burn them, but store the wheat in my barn.’” Verse ConceptsBinding cornHarvestSicklesBindingEternal JudgmentMixed MultitudeJoining ThingsGathering FoodBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesPlants Growing UpGrowing

For the Lord’s power will rest on this mountain.

But Moab will be trampled in his place
as straw is trampled in a dung pile.
Verse Conceptsdung and manureStrawThe Prophecy Towards EdomGod's HandTrampling PeopleDefecationGod's Hands In Opposition

"Now, salt is good, but if salt should lose its taste, how will it be made salty? It isn't fit for the soil or for the manure pile; they throw it out. Anyone who has ears to hear should listen!"

There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the field. Suddenly my sheaf stood up, and your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.” Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsBinding cornGrainJoining ThingsBowing Before JosephReapingPeople Getting Upvulnerability

Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I’ll tell the reapers: Gather the weeds first and tie them in bundles to burn them, but store the wheat in my barn.’” Verse ConceptsBinding cornHarvestSicklesBindingEternal JudgmentMixed MultitudeJoining ThingsGathering FoodBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesPlants Growing UpGrowing

“When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, RestrictionsBinding cornHarvestGleaningLaws About Agriculture

So Ruth left and entered the field to gather grain behind the harvesters. She happened to be in the portion of land belonging to Boaz, who was from Elimelech’s family. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsGod's Mercy, Example OfRelatives

Can you hold the wild ox to a furrow by its harness?
Will it plow the valleys behind you?
Verse ConceptsTilling The SoilUnicorns

Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed?
Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?
Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsPloughingVegetationUnceasingAlways Being ActiveTilling The SoilPloughmenPlanting SeedsFarmingSowing Seedssowing

Now isn’t Boaz our relative? Haven’t you been working with his female servants? This evening he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsGrainWinnowingRelatives

His winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn. But the chaff He will burn up with fire that never goes out.” Verse ConceptsHell, Description OfNames For HeavenHell, As An ExperienceForksSin, God's Judgment OnThreshing FloorToolsWinnowingWicked Described AsEternal JudgmentLight As ChaffReapingBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesWeed

He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones,
and planted it with the finest vines.
He built a tower in the middle of it
and even dug out a winepress there.
He expected it to yield good grapes,
but it yielded worthless grapes.
Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsFortsExcavationWineskins And Vats

Now I will tell you
what I am about to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge,
and it will be consumed;
I will tear down its wall,
and it will be trampled.
Verse ConceptsWallsFigurative Fields

and can’t even fill the hands of the reaper
or the arms of the one who binds sheaves.
Verse ConceptsArmsMowingNot Reaping What You Sow

The Lord God showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the time the spring crop first began to sprout—after the cutting of the king’s hay. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsCropsLocustsMowingDestruction Of PlantsAttitudes Towards Kings

“‘An enemy did this!’ he told them.

“‘So, do you want us to go and gather them up?’ the slaves asked him. Verse ConceptsEnemies Of God

“When a fire gets out of control, spreads to thornbushes, and consumes stacks of cut grain, standing grain, or a field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution for what was burned. Verse ConceptsCornAgriculture, RestrictionsFieldsAgriculture, TermsThornsWeedsArsonBurning Plants

It will be as if a reaper had gathered standing grain—
his arm harvesting the heads of grain—
and as if one had gleaned heads of grain
in the Valley of Rephaim.
Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsBinding cornArmsHarvestSicklesGleaningReaping

He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones,
and planted it with the finest vines.
He built a tower in the middle of it
and even dug out a winepress there.
He expected it to yield good grapes,
but it yielded worthless grapes.
Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsFortsExcavationWineskins And Vats

a messenger came to Job and reported: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys grazing nearby, Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsMessengerPloughingTilling The SoilAnimals Eating

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