Thematic Bible: Plowing
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Agriculture » Operations in » Plowing
So he went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat while he [was] plowing [with] twelve pairs of oxen before him. When he and the twelve passed Elijah, he threw his cloak on him.
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And a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the female donkeys were feeding {beside them}.
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But Jesus said, "No one who puts [his] hand on the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God!"
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"And which of you who has a slave plowing or shepherding [sheep] who comes in from the field will say to him, 'Come here at once [and] recline at the table'?
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Or doubtless does he speak {for our sake}? For it is written {for our sake}, because the one who plows ought to plow in hope and the one who threshes [ought to do so] in hope of a share.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Plowing
And a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the female donkeys were feeding {beside them}.
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Oxen » Used for » Plowing
So he went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat while he [was] plowing [with] twelve pairs of oxen before him. When he and the twelve passed Elijah, he threw his cloak on him.
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And a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the female donkeys were feeding {beside them}.
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Do horses run on rocks, or does one plow the sea 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 Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up for yourselves prepared virgin soil, and you must not sow among thornbushes.
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Sow for yourselves righteousness; {reap loyal love}. Break up for yourself fallow ground; [it is] time to seek Yahweh so he will come and rain righteousness upon you.
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Plowing » Performed » With oxen
And a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the female donkeys were feeding {beside them}.
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So was the first attack [in] which Jonathan and {his armor bearer} killed about twenty men within about half of a furrow in an acre of [an] open field.
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Plowing » Performed » Generally by servants
"And which of you who has a slave plowing or shepherding [sheep] who comes in from the field will say to him, 'Come here at once [and] recline at the table'?
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And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and {foreigners} [shall be] your farmers and vinedressers.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of peace and prosperity
He shall judge between the nations and he shall arbitrate for many peoples. They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks. A nation shall not lift up a sword against a nation, and they shall not learn war again.
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And he will judge between many peoples and will arbitrate for strong nations far away; and they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation will not lift up a sword against a nation, and they will no longer learn war.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of a course of sin
[Just] as I have seen, plowers of mischief and sowers of trouble will reap it.
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You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped injustice, you have eaten the fruit of lies, because you have trusted in your strength, in the multitude of your warriors.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of the labor ministers
Or doubtless does he speak {for our sake}? For it is written {for our sake}, because the one who plows ought to plow in hope and the one who threshes [ought to do so] in hope of a share.
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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 with a donkey [yoked] together.
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Plowing » Followed by harrowing and sowing
Is it all day [that] the plowman plows, opens to sow seed, harrows his ground? When he has leveled its {surface}, does he not scatter dill, and sow cumin seed, and {plant} wheat [in] planted rows, and barley [in] an appointed place, and spelt grain [as] its border?
Plowing » Performed » Sometimes by the owner of the land himself
So he went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat while he [was] plowing [with] twelve pairs of oxen before him. When he and the twelve passed Elijah, he threw his cloak on him.
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Plowing » Performed » During the cold winter season
The lazy person will not plow in season; he will expect at the harvest, but there [will be] nothing.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of repentance and reformation
For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up for yourselves prepared virgin soil, and you must not sow among thornbushes.
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Plowing » Noah the supposed inventor of
And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one {shall relieve us} from our work, and from the hard labor of our hands, from the ground which Yahweh had cursed.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of a severe course of affliction
Ephraim [was] a trained heifer, that loved to thresh [grain], and I myself {spared} the fairness of her neck; I will make Ephraim break the ground, Judah will plow, Jacob must till for himself.
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Plowing » Performed » In long and straight furrows
On my back plowmen have plowed. They have made their furrows long."
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Plowing » Illustrative » (attention and constancy required in,) of continued devotedness
But Jesus said, "No one who puts [his] hand on the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God!"
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Plowing » Performed » By a plow
But Jesus said, "No one who puts [his] hand on 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, or does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and [the] fruit of righteousness into wormwood!
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