Thematic Bible: Plowing
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Agriculture » Operations in » Plowing
Elijah left there and found Elisha plowing with a team of bulls. There were eleven teams ahead of him. He was plowing with the last one. Elijah took off his cloak and put it on Elisha.
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a messenger came running to Job. We were plowing the fields with the cattle, he said, and the donkeys were in a nearby pasture.
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Jesus responded: No man, who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.
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Let us say you have a servant who is plowing or looking after the sheep. Do you tell him to hurry and eat his meal when he comes in from the field?
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Or did he say it for our benefit? This is written for our benefit without a doubt! He who plows should plow in hope. Likewise he who threshes in hope should be a partaker of his hope.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Plowing
a messenger came running to Job. We were plowing the fields with the cattle, he said, and the donkeys were in a nearby pasture.
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Oxen » Used for » Plowing
Elijah left there and found Elisha plowing with a team of bulls. There were eleven teams ahead of him. He was plowing with the last one. Elijah took off his cloak and put it on Elisha.
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a messenger came running to Job. We were plowing the fields with the cattle, he said, and the donkeys were in a nearby pasture.
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Do horses run upon the rock? Will one plow there with cattle? You have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood (bitterness)!
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Plowing » The breaking up or tilling of the earth
Jehovah says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: Break up your unplowed fields, and do not plant among thorns.
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I said: Plow new ground for yourselves, plant righteousness, and reap the blessings that your devotion to me will produce. It is time for you to turn to me, Jehovah, and I will come and pour out righteousness on you.
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Plowing » Performed » With oxen
a messenger came running to Job. We were plowing the fields with the cattle, he said, and the donkeys were in a nearby pasture.
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In that first slaughter Jonathan and the young man killed about twenty men in an area of about half an acre.
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Plowing » Performed » Generally by servants
Let us say you have a servant who is plowing or looking after the sheep. Do you tell him to hurry and eat his meal when he comes in from the field?
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Strangers will stand and shepherd your flocks. Foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of peace and prosperity
Then he will judge disputes between nations and settle matters between many people. They will beat (hammer) their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations will not fight against each other, and they will not learn war anymore.
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He will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations far away. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks! Nation will not lift up sword against nation and they will not learn war any more!
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of a course of sin
When I saw those who plowed wickedness and planted misery, they gathered its harvest.
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But instead you plowed evil and harvested unrighteousness. You have eaten the fruit produced by your lies. This is because you trusted in your way and in the large number of your soldiers.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of the labor ministers
Or did he say it for our benefit? This is written for our benefit without a doubt! He who plows should plow in hope. Likewise he who threshes in hope should be a partaker of his hope.
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Plowing » With an ox and an ass yoked together forbidden to the jews
Do not plow with a bull and a donkey together.
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Plowing » Followed by harrowing and sowing
Does the plowman keep plowing all day in order to sow seed? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods? When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow the black cummin and scatter the cummin, plant the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?
Plowing » Performed » Sometimes by the owner of the land himself
Elijah left there and found Elisha plowing with a team of bulls. There were eleven teams ahead of him. He was plowing with the last one. Elijah took off his cloak and put it on Elisha.
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Plowing » Performed » During the cold winter season
The lazy man will not plow because of the cold. He will beg during harvest and have nothing.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of repentance and reformation
Jehovah says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: Break up your unplowed fields, and do not plant among thorns.
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Plowing » Noah the supposed inventor of
He named him Noah. He said: He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground Jehovah has cursed.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of a severe course of affliction
Ephraim was once like a well-trained young cow, ready and willing to thresh grain. But I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck and harness her for harder work. I made Judah pull the plow and Jacob pull the harrow.
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Plowing » Performed » In long and straight furrows
The plowers plowed upon my back. They lengthened their furrows.
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Plowing » Illustrative » (attention and constancy required in,) of continued devotedness
Jesus responded: No man, 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 responded: No man, 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 upon the rock? Will one plow there with cattle? You have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood (bitterness)!
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