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 in front of him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and cast his cloak upon him.
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and there came a messenger to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,
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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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"Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come at once and recline at table'?
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Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Plowing
and 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 in front of him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and cast his cloak upon him.
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and there came a messenger to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,
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Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood--
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Plowing » The breaking up or tilling of the earth
For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: "Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
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Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may 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 plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,
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And that first strike, which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made, killed 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
"Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come at once and recline at table'?
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Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks; foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers;
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of peace and prosperity
He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for 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 they learn war anymore.
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He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations far away; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of a course of sin
As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
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You have plowed iniquity; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your warriors,
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of the labor ministers
Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.
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Plowing » With an ox and an ass yoked together forbidden to the jews
You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
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Plowing » Followed by harrowing and sowing
Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground? When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, sow cumin, and put in wheat in rows and barley in its proper place, and emmer as the border?
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 in front of him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and cast his cloak upon him.
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Plowing » Performed » During the cold winter season
The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of repentance and reformation
For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: "Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
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Plowing » Noah the supposed inventor of
and called his name Noah, saying, "Out of the ground that the LORD has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands."
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of a severe course of affliction
Ephraim was a trained calf that loved to thresh, and I spared her fair neck; but I will put Ephraim to the yoke; Judah must plow; Jacob must harrow for himself.
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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
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
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
Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood--
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