Thematic Bible: Plowing
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Agriculture » Operations in » Plowing
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.
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a messenger came to Job and reported: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys grazing nearby,
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But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
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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.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Plowing
a messenger came to Job and reported: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys grazing nearby,
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Oxen » Used for » Plowing
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.
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a messenger came to Job and reported: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys grazing nearby,
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does anyone plow there with oxen?
Yet you have turned justice into poison
and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood
Plowing » The breaking up or tilling of the earth
For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem:
Break up the unplowed ground;
do not sow among the thorns.
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do not sow among the thorns.
and reap faithful love;
break up your unplowed ground.
It is time to seek the Lord
until He comes
on you like the rain.
Plowing » Performed » With oxen
a messenger came to Job and reported: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys grazing nearby,
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In that first assault Jonathan and his armor-bearer struck down about 20 men in a half-acre field.
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Plowing » Performed » Generally by servants
and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.
Plowing » Illustrative » Of peace and prosperity
and provide arbitration for many peoples.
They will turn their swords into plows
and their spears into pruning knives.
Nations will not take up the sword against other nations,
and they will never again train for war.
and provide arbitration for strong nations
that are far away.
They will beat their swords into plows,
and their spears into pruning knives.
Nation will not take up the sword against nation,
and they will never again train for war.
Plowing » Illustrative » Of a course of sin
and those who sow trouble
you have eaten the fruit of lies.
Because you have trusted in your own way
and in your large number of soldiers,
Plowing » Illustrative » Of the labor ministers
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.
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Plowing » With an ox and an ass yoked together forbidden to the jews
Do not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
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Plowing » Followed by harrowing and sowing
Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed? Does he [continuously] break up and cultivate the soil? When he has leveled its surface, does he not then scatter cumin and sow black cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, with spelt as their border.
Plowing » Performed » Sometimes by the owner of the land himself
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.
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Plowing » Performed » During the cold winter season
at harvest time he looks,
Plowing » Illustrative » Of repentance and reformation
For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem:
Break up the unplowed ground;
do not sow among the thorns.
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do not sow among the thorns.
Plowing » Noah the supposed inventor of
And he named him Noah, saying, “This one will bring us relief from the agonizing labor of our hands, caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.”
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of a severe course of affliction
that loves to thresh,
but I will place a yoke on
I will harness Ephraim;
Judah will plow;
Jacob will do the final plowing.
Plowing » Performed » In long and straight furrows
they made their furrows long.
Plowing » Illustrative » (attention and constancy required in,) of continued devotedness
But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
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Plowing » Performed » By a plow
But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
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Plowing » Difficulty of, on rocky ground
does anyone plow there with oxen?
Yet you have turned justice into poison
and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood