Thematic Bible: Plowing
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Agriculture » Operations in » Plowing
And he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was ploughing with twelve yokes before him, and he with the twelfth; and Elijah went over to him, and cast his mantle on him.
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And there came a messenger to Job and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them;
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But Jesus said to him, No one having laid his hand on the plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.
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But which of you is there who, having a bondman ploughing or shepherding, when he comes in out of the field, will say, Come and lie down immediately to table?
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or does he say it altogether for our sakes? For for our sakes it has been written, that the plougher should plough in hope, and he that treads out corn, in hope of partaking of it.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Plowing
And there came a messenger to Job and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them;
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Oxen » Used for » Plowing
And he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was ploughing with twelve yokes before him, and he with the twelfth; and Elijah went over to him, and cast his mantle on him.
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And there came a messenger to Job and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them;
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Shall horses run upon the rock? will men plough thereon with oxen? For ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
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Plowing » The breaking up or tilling of the earth
For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: Break up for you a fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
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Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek Jehovah, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
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Plowing » Performed » With oxen
And there came a messenger to Job and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them;
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And that first slaughter which Jonathan and his armour-bearer wrought was about twenty men, as it were on the half-furrow of an acre of land.
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Plowing » Performed » Generally by servants
But which of you is there who, having a bondman ploughing or shepherding, when he comes in out of the field, will say, Come and lie down immediately to table?
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And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your ploughmen and your vinedressers.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of peace and prosperity
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall reprove many peoples; and they shall forge their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
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And he shall judge among many peoples, and reprove strong nations, even afar off; and they shall forge their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of a course of sin
Even as I have seen, they that plough iniquity and sow mischief, reap the same.
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Ye have ploughed wickedness, reaped iniquity, eaten the fruit of lies; for thou didst confide in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of the labor ministers
or does he say it altogether for our sakes? For for our sakes it has been written, that the plougher should plough in hope, and he that treads out corn, in hope of partaking of it.
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Plowing » With an ox and an ass yoked together forbidden to the jews
Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.
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Plowing » Followed by harrowing and sowing
Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? Is he all day opening and breaking the clods of his land? Doth he not, when he hath levelled the face thereof, cast abroad dill, and scatter cummin, and set the wheat in rows, and the barley in an appointed place, and the rye in its border?
Plowing » Performed » Sometimes by the owner of the land himself
And he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was ploughing with twelve yokes before him, and he with the twelfth; and Elijah went over to him, and cast his mantle on him.
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Plowing » Performed » During the cold winter season
The sluggard will not plough by reason of the winter; he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of repentance and reformation
For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: Break up for you a fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
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Plowing » Noah the supposed inventor of
And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and concerning the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of a severe course of affliction
And Ephraim is a trained heifer, that loveth to tread out the corn; I have passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to draw; Judah shall plough, Jacob shall break his clods.
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Plowing » Performed » In long and straight furrows
The ploughers ploughed upon my back; they made long their furrows.
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Plowing » Illustrative » (attention and constancy required in,) of continued devotedness
But Jesus said to him, No one having laid his hand on the plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.
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Plowing » Performed » By a plow
But Jesus said to him, No one having laid his hand on the plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.
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Plowing » Difficulty of, on rocky ground
Shall horses run upon the rock? will men plough thereon with oxen? For ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
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