Thematic Bible: Plowing
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Agriculture » Operations in » Plowing
So he departed 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 on 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 one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."
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But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'
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or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in the hope of having a 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 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 on 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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Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;
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Plowing » The breaking up or tilling of the earth
For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns.
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Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and rains righteousness on 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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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 who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'
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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
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 they learn war any more.
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and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of a course of sin
According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
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You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of the labor ministers
or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in the hope of having 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 a donkey together.
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Plowing » Followed by harrowing and sowing
Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods? When he has leveled its surface, doesn't he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and emmer as its borders?
Plowing » Performed » Sometimes by the owner of the land himself
So he departed 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 on him.
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Plowing » Performed » During the cold winter season
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in 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 to Jerusalem, "Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns.
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Plowing » Noah the supposed inventor of
and he named him Noah, saying, "This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed."
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of a severe course of affliction
Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.
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Plowing » Performed » In long and straight furrows
The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
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Plowing » Illustrative » (attention and constancy required in,) of continued devotedness
But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."
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Plowing » Performed » By a plow
But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."
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Plowing » Difficulty of, on rocky ground
Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;
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