Thematic Bible: Plowing
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Agriculture » Operations in » Plowing
So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat who was plowing with twelve yoke [of oxen] before him, and he with the twelfth. And Elijah passed over to him, and cast his mantle upon him.
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that there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
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But Jesus said to him, No man, having put his hand to a plow, and looking to things behind, is fit for the kingdom of God.
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But which of you having a bondman plowing or feeding livestock, who, when he comes in from the field, will straightaway say, After coming near, sit down?
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or does he speak altogether for our sake? For our sake, for it was written, He who plows ought to plow with hope, and he who threshes with his hope, with hope to share.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Plowing
that there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
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Oxen » Used for » Plowing
So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat who was plowing with twelve yoke [of oxen] before him, and he with the twelfth. And Elijah passed over to him, and cast his mantle upon him.
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that there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
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Shall horses run upon the rock? Will [a man] plow [there] with oxen? That ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
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Plowing » The breaking up or tilling of the earth
Sow to yourselves in righteousness. Reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek LORD, till he comes and rains righteousness upon you.
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Plowing » Performed » With oxen
that there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
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And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land.
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Plowing » Performed » Generally by servants
But which of you having a bondman plowing or feeding livestock, who, when he comes in from the field, will straightaway say, After coming near, sit down?
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And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of peace and prosperity
And he will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall the
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And he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor s
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of a course of sin
According as I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
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Ye have plowed wickedness. Ye have reaped iniquity. Ye have eaten the fruit of lies. For thou trusted in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of the labor ministers
or does he speak altogether for our sake? For our sake, for it was written, He who plows ought to plow with hope, and he who threshes with his hope, with hope to share.
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Plowing » With an ox and an ass yoked together forbidden to the jews
Thou shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
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Plowing » Followed by harrowing and sowing
Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he [continually] open and harrow his ground? When he has leveled the face of it, does he not cast abroad the chick-peas, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border of it?
Plowing » Performed » Sometimes by the owner of the land himself
So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat who was plowing with twelve yoke [of oxen] before him, and he with the twelfth. And Elijah passed over to him, and cast his mantle upon him.
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Plowing » Performed » During the cold winter season
The sluggard will not plow because of the winter. Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of repentance and reformation
Plowing » Noah the supposed inventor of
And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which LORD has cursed.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of a severe course of affliction
And Ephraim is a heifer that is taught, that loves to tread out [the grain]. But I have passed over upon her fair neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah shall plow. Jacob shall break his clods.
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Plowing » Performed » In long and straight furrows
The plowers plowed 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 man, having put his hand to a plow, and looking to things behind, is fit for the kingdom of God.
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Plowing » Performed » By a plow
But Jesus said to him, No man, having put his hand to a plow, and looking to things behind, is fit for the kingdom of God.
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Plowing » Difficulty of, on rocky ground
Shall horses run upon the rock? Will [a man] plow [there] with oxen? That ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
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