Thematic Bible: Plowing
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Agriculture » Operations in » Plowing
Elijah left there and located Shaphat's son Elisha, who was plowing, along with a total of twelve pairs of oxen. (He was plowing with the twelfth pair.) As Elijah passed by, he tossed his cloak at Elisha.
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a messenger approached Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the female donkeys were grazing nearby
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Jesus told him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."
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"Suppose a man among you has a servant plowing or watching sheep. Would he say to him when he comes in from the field, "Come at once and have something to eat'?
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Isn't he really speaking for our benefit? Yes, this was written for our benefit, because the one who plows should plow in hope, and the one who threshes should thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Plowing
a messenger approached Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the female donkeys were grazing nearby
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Oxen » Used for » Plowing
Elijah left there and located Shaphat's son Elisha, who was plowing, along with a total of twelve pairs of oxen. (He was plowing with the twelfth pair.) As Elijah passed by, he tossed his cloak at Elisha.
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a messenger approached Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the female donkeys were grazing nearby
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"Horses don't run over bare rock, do they? One doesn't plow rock with oxen, does he? But you have turned justice to gall, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness.
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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 your unplowed ground, and don't sow among thorns.
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Sow in righteousness in your own interest, reap in gracious love, break up your own unprepared ground; It is now time to inquire of the LORD, until he comes to pour out righteousness for you.
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Plowing » Performed » With oxen
a messenger approached Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the female donkeys were grazing nearby
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In the initial attack, Jonathan and his armor bearer struck down about twenty men in an area of about half an acre of land.
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Plowing » Performed » Generally by servants
"Suppose a man among you has a servant plowing or watching sheep. Would he say to him when he comes in from the field, "Come at once and have something to eat'?
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Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will work your land and dress your vines.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of peace and prosperity
He will judge between the nations, and will render verdicts for the benefit of many. "They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nations will not raise swords against nations, and they will not learn warfare anymore.
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And he will judge among many people, rebuking strong nations far away; and they will reshape their swords as plowshares and their spears as pruning hooks. No nation will threaten another, nor will they train for war anymore.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of a course of sin
It's been my experience that those who plow the soil of iniquity and those who sow the seed of trouble will reap their harvest!
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You have plowed evil; you have reaped unrighteousness; you have eaten the fruit of hypocrisy; because you trusted in your own direction, and in the number of your mighty forces.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of the labor ministers
Isn't he really speaking for our benefit? Yes, this was written for our benefit, because the one who plows should plow in hope, and the one who threshes should 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
"Don't plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
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Plowing » Followed by harrowing and sowing
Does he who plows for sowing plow all the time? Does he keep on breaking up and harrowing his field? When he has leveled its surface, he scatters caraway and sows cumin, doesn't he? He plants wheat in rows, barley in its designated place, and feed for livestock around its borders, doesn't he?
Plowing » Performed » Sometimes by the owner of the land himself
Elijah left there and located Shaphat's son Elisha, who was plowing, along with a total of twelve pairs of oxen. (He was plowing with the twelfth pair.) As Elijah passed by, he tossed his cloak at Elisha.
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Plowing » Performed » During the cold winter season
A lazy person doesn't plow in the proper season; he looks for a harvest, but there is nothing.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of repentance and reformation
For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, "Break up your unplowed ground, and don't sow among thorns.
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Plowing » Noah the supposed inventor of
whom he named Noah, because he said, "May this one comfort us from our work, from pain that is caused by our manual labor, and from the ground that the LORD has cursed."
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of a severe course of affliction
"Ephraim, the well-trained heifer, loves to thresh grain, so I will spare her neck. I will turn Ephraim into a pack animal. Judah will pull the plow, and Jacob will turn up the fallow ground.
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Plowing » Performed » In long and straight furrows
Wicked people ploughed over my back, creating long-lasting wounds."
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Plowing » Illustrative » (attention and constancy required in,) of continued devotedness
Jesus told 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 told 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
"Horses don't run over bare rock, do they? One doesn't plow rock with oxen, does he? But you have turned justice to gall, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness.
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