Thematic Bible: Plowing
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Agriculture » Operations in » Plowing
And he departed thence and found Elisha the son of Shaphat plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelve. And Elijah went to him and cast his mantle upon him.
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there came a messenger unto Job, and said, "While the oxen were a plowing, and the asses going in the pasture beside them,
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Jesus said unto him, "No man that putteth his hand to the plough, and looketh back, is apt to the kingdom of God."
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Who is it, if he had a servant a plowing, or feeding cattle, that would say unto him when he were come from the field, 'Go quickly and sit down to meat.'
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Either saith he it not altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he which eareth should ear in hope: and that he which thresheth in hope, should be partaker of his hope.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Plowing
there came a messenger unto Job, and said, "While the oxen were a plowing, and the asses going in the pasture beside them,
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Oxen » Used for » Plowing
And he departed thence and found Elisha the son of Shaphat plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelve. And Elijah went to him and cast his mantle upon him.
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there came a messenger unto Job, and said, "While the oxen were a plowing, and the asses going in the pasture beside them,
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Who can run with horses, or plow with oxen upon the hard rocks of stone? For why? Ye have turned true judgment into bitterness, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood.
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Plowing » The breaking up or tilling of the earth
For thus sayeth the LORD, to all Judah and Jerusalem, "Plow your land, and sow not among the thorns.
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that they might sow unto righteousness, and reap the fruits of well doing: that they might plow up their fresh land and seek the LORD, till he came, and learned them righteousness.
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Plowing » Performed » With oxen
there came a messenger unto Job, and said, "While the oxen were a plowing, and the asses going in the pasture beside them,
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And that first slaughter which Jonathan and his harness bearer made was upon a twenty men, within the compass as it were about a half acre of land.
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Plowing » Performed » Generally by servants
Who is it, if he had a servant a plowing, or feeding cattle, that would say unto him when he were come from the field, 'Go quickly and sit down to meat.'
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Strangers shall stand and feed your cattle, and the Aliens shall be your plowmen and reapers.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of peace and prosperity
And he shall be judge among the heathen and tell many nations their faults. And they shall turn their swords into mattocks and their spears into scythes. One nation shall not lift up a sword against another, neither shall they teach to war any more.
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And shall give sentence among the multitude of the Heathen and reform the people of far countries: so that of their swords they shall make plowshares, and scythes of their spears. One people shall not lift up a sword against another, yea they shall no more learn to fight.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of a course of sin
For, as I have proved by experience, they that plow iniquity and sow wretchedness, reap the same.
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But now they have plowed them wickedness, therefore shall they reap sin, and eat the fruit of lies. Seeing thou puttest thy confidence in thine own ways, and leanest to the multitude of thy worthies:
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of the labor ministers
Either saith he it not altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he which eareth should ear in hope: and that he which thresheth in hope, should be partaker of his hope.
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Plowing » With an ox and an ass yoked together forbidden to the jews
Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.
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Plowing » Followed by harrowing and sowing
Goeth not the husbandman ever in due season earnestly to his land? He moweth and ploweth his ground to sow. And when he hath made it plain, he soweth it with fitches or cumin. He soweth the wheat and Barley in their place, Milium and Rye also in their place.
Plowing » Performed » Sometimes by the owner of the land himself
And he departed thence and found Elisha the son of Shaphat plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelve. And Elijah went to him and cast his mantle upon him.
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Plowing » Performed » During the cold winter season
A slothful body will not go to plow, for cold of the winter; therefore shall he go a begging in Summer and have nothing.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of repentance and reformation
For thus sayeth the LORD, to all Judah and Jerusalem, "Plow your land, and sow not among the thorns.
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Plowing » Noah the supposed inventor of
and called him Noah, saying, "This same shall comfort us: as concerning our work and sorrow of our hands which we have about the earth that the LORD hath cursed."
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of a severe course of affliction
Ephraim was unto me, as a cow that is used to go to plow; therefore I loved him, and fell upon his fair neck. I drove Ephraim, Judah plowed, and Jacob played the husbandman:
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Plowing » Performed » In long and straight furrows
The plowers plowed upon my back, and made long furrows.
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Plowing » Illustrative » (attention and constancy required in,) of continued devotedness
Jesus said unto him, "No man that putteth his hand to the plough, and looketh back, is apt to the kingdom of God."
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Plowing » Performed » By a plow
Jesus said unto him, "No man that putteth his hand to the plough, and looketh back, is apt to the kingdom of God."
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Plowing » Difficulty of, on rocky ground
Who can run with horses, or plow with oxen upon the hard rocks of stone? For why? Ye have turned true judgment into bitterness, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood.
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