35 Bible Verses about Agriculture

Noah, a man of the soil, planted a vineyard.

Judah and all its cities will dwell together in it, the farmer and the shepherds with the flocks.

I will use you to crush shepherds and their flocks. I will use you to crush farmers and their oxen. I will use you to crush governors and officials.

Listen to Jehovah the God of Hosts, the Almighty: Wailing will be in all the broad ways. They will say in all the streets, Alas! Alas! They will call the farmer to mourning, and the professional mourner to lamentation and crying.

He will say I am no prophet! I am a tiller of the ground. I have been made a slave from my youth.

The flax and the barley were ruined, because the barley was ripe, and the flax was budding.

He must then take his wife to the priest along with eight cups of barley flour as an offering for her. He must not pour olive oil on the flour or put frankincense on it, since it is a grain offering brought because of the husband's jealousy. It is an offering used for a confession, to remind someone of a sin that was committed.

So Naomi came back out of the country of Moab. Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, came with her. They came to Bethlehem in the first days of the barley harvest.

Each governor also supplied his share of barley and straw as needed for the chariot horses and the work animals.

A man came from Baal Shalishah. He brought Elisha twenty loaves of bread made from the first barley harvested that year and some freshly cut heads of grain. Elisha told his servant to feed the group of prophets with this.

Thus Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea. He finally stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.

Your contribution will be considered to be grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.

After the Passover they ate the old corn of the land, unleavened cakes, and parched corn.

You visit the earth and cause it to overflow. You greatly enrich it! The stream of God is full of water. You prepare their grain and thus you prepare the earth.

There shall be abundance of grain throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.

So Naomi came back out of the country of Moab. Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, came with her. They came to Bethlehem in the first days of the barley harvest.

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease.

Plant your land and gather in what it produces for six years.

When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

It is the dry season and the wheat harvest. I will pray and Jehovah will send thunder and rain. When this happens, you will realize that you committed a great sin against Jehovah when you asked him for a king.

If you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.

You may eat any kind of locust, cricket, katydid, or grasshopper.

You will plant many crops in your fields, but harvest little for locusts will destroy your crops.

When there is famine in the land or an epidemic or scorching winds or swarms of locusts, or when their enemies attack your people, or when disease or sickness among them destroys the crops,

The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks.

When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer (vagabond) on the earth.

Your strength will be spent uselessly. Your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.

Jehovah will become angry with you. He will shut the sky and there will be no rain. Then the ground will not grow any crops. You will quickly disappear from this good land Jehovah is giving you.

A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine, and two quarts of seed will produce only four quarts of grain.

The people of Israel plant the wind, but they harvest a storm. A field of grain that does not ripen will never produce any grain. Even if it did produce grain, foreigners would eat it all.

Noah, a man of the soil, planted a vineyard.

Jehovah God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.

Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. Jehovah blessed him.

Plant your fields, prune your vineyards, and gather your crops for six years.

Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. Jehovah blessed him.

During the seven years of plenty the land produced abundantly.

I will send you rain at the proper time. Then the land will produce crops and the trees will bear fruit.

You shall surely tithe all the produce from what you sow, which comes out of the field every year.

For seven days you will celebrate this festival dedicated to Jehovah your God in the place he will choose. You will enjoy yourselves, because Jehovah your God will bless all your harvest and all your work.

You may eat any kind of locust, cricket, katydid, or grasshopper.

We saw Nephilim there. The descendants of Anak are Nephilim. We felt as small as grasshoppers. That is no doubt how we must have looked to them.

They came with their livestock and tents, as thick as locusts. It was impossible to count the men and their camels. They entered the land and destroyed it.

Also when they will be afraid of what is high, and fears will be in the way, and the almond tree will flourish, and the grasshopper will be a burden, and the caper berry breaks and desire fails, man goes to his long lasting home and the mourners go about the streets.

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

They mourned loudly for a long time at the threshing place at Atad east of the Jordan. Joseph performed mourning ceremonies for seven days.

Look I will place wool on the threshing floor where we thresh the wheat. If in the morning there is dew only on the wool but not on the ground, I will know that you are going to use me to rescue Israel.

Boaz is of our kindred, with whose servant girls you have been. He winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.

As they came to the threshing place of Nacon, the oxen stumbled, and Uzzah reached out and took hold of the Ark of the Covenant.

When the angel stretched out his arm to destroy Jerusalem, Jehovah changed his mind about the disaster. Enough! He said to the angel who was destroying the people. Put down your weapon. The angel of Jehovah was at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

When there is famine in the land or an epidemic or scorching winds or swarms of locusts, or when their enemies attack your people, or when disease or sickness among them destroys the crops,

That which the gnawing locust left the swarming locust ate. That which the swarming locust left the creeping locust ate. That which the creeping locust left other locusts ate.

He gave their crops to grasshoppers and their produce to locusts.

He spoke, and countless locusts and grasshoppers came.

Raise your battle flag throughout the world. Blow the ram's horn among the nations. Prepare nations to attack Babylon. Tell the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz to attack it. Appoint a commander to lead the attack. Bring up horses like a swarm of locusts.

Boaz is of our kindred, with whose servant girls you have been. He winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.

The angel of Jehovah came to the village of Ophrah. He sat under the oak tree that belonged to Joash, a man of the clan of Abiezer. His son Gideon was secretly threshing wheat in a wine press, so that the Midianites would not see him.

There at the threshing place Araunah and his four sons were threshing wheat, and when they saw the angel, the sons ran and hid.

The black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin. But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick, and the cummin with a rod.

It is written in the Law of Moses: You should not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads (threshes) out the grain. Does God care only about oxen?

You shall count seven weeks for yourself. Count off seven weeks from the beginning of your grain harvest.

Do not allow anyone in Babylon to plant or harvest. Everyone will turn to his own people and flee to his own homeland because of the enemies' swords.

Thrust in the sickle for the harvest is ripe! Come and tread for the winepress is full and the vats overflow. Their wickedness is great.

When the grain is ready he immediately sends men to cut it, because the time for cutting has come.

I saw a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

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.

a messenger came running to Job. We were plowing the fields with the cattle, he said, and the donkeys were in a nearby pasture.

Jesus responded: No man, who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.

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?

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.

Your barns will be filled with plenty. Your vats will overflow with new wine.

There is no grain left. The grapevines, fig trees, pomegranates, and olive trees have not yet produced. However from now on I will bless you.

Look at the birds of the sky, they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you worth more than they?

He said: I would pull down my barns and build larger barns. I will store all my grain and goods there.

Consider the ravens for they do not sow or reap. They have no storehouse or barn. Yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds!

Do not glean your vineyard. Do not gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard. Leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am Jehovah your God.

When you harvest your fields, do not cut the grain at the edges of the fields. Do not go back to cut the heads of grain that were left. Leave them for poor people and foreigners. Jehovah is your God.'

Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi: Now let me go into the fields and pick up the heads of grain after anyone in whose eyes I find favor. She said to her: Go, my daughter.

Then Boaz said to Ruth: Listen to me, my daughter; do not go to pick up the grain in another field. Do not leave here, but stay with my servant girls.

So she kept near the servant girls of Boaz to gather the grain till the cutting of the early grain and the cutting of the late grain was ended. She continued living with her mother-in-law.

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease.

No blacksmith could be found in all of Israel. In this way the Philistines kept the Hebrews from making swords and spears. Everyone in Israel had to go to the Philistines to sharpen the blade of his plow, his mattock, ax, or sickle. The charge for sharpening plowshares and for the mattocks, and for the mattocks, and for the three-pronged forks, and for the axes was a pim.

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? He instructs him in right judgment and his God teaches him. read more.
The black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin. But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick, and the cummin with a rod. Bread flour must be ground. Therefore he does not thresh it forever, break it with his cartwheel, or crush it with his horsemen.

He told them many illustrations. He said: A farmer went out to sow. Some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds devoured them. Others fell on rocky places and did not have much soil. read more.
When they grew, the sun scorched them, and because they had no root they withered and died. Others fell upon the thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them. Some fell on good ground and yielded fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.

He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will reap bountifully.

I struck you with scorching winds, mildew and hail to ruin everything you tried to grow, declared Jehovah, but you still did not repent.

When there is famine in the land or an epidemic or scorching winds or swarms of locusts, or when their enemies attack your people, or when disease or sickness among them destroys the crops,

Jehovah will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever. He will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die.

I struck you with scorching and mildew. The caterpillar has devoured the multitudes of your gardens, your vineyards, your fig trees and your olive-trees. Yet you have not returned to me, said Jehovah.

The land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you came. You used to sow your seed and irrigate it with your foot as in a vegetable garden.

I made myself parks and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all kinds.

Jehovah will continually guide you. He will satisfy your desire in scorched places and give strength to your bones. You will be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.

When you reap the harvest of your land, you should not reap to the very corners of your field. You should not gather the gleanings of your harvest.

Tell the Israelites: 'When you come to the land I am going to give you and you harvest grain, bring a bundle of the first grain you harvest to the priest.

Do not even harvest the grain that grows by itself without being planted. Do not gather the grapes from your unpruned vines. It is a year of complete rest for the land.

He who observes the wind will not sow and he that regards the clouds will not reap.

Blessed are those who plant beside every stream and those who let cattle and donkeys roam freely.

He told them many illustrations. He said: A farmer went out to sow.

A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine, and two quarts of seed will produce only four quarts of grain.

When that time comes, the fine vineyards, each with a thousand vines and each worth a thousand pieces of silver, will be overgrown with thorn bushes and briers.

My people planted wheat. They gathered weeds! They worked hard and got nothing for it. Because of my fierce anger their crops have failed.

The field is laid waste, the land mourns. The grain is destroyed, the new wine dried up, the oil fails. Be ashamed you farmers. Cry you vinedressers. The wheat, the barley and the harvest of the field have perished.

He will come down like rain on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth.

The reaper does not fill his hand with it, or the binder of sheaves his bosom.

This is what the Lord Jehovah showed me: Behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the sprouting of the second crop. It was the later growth (second crop) after the king's mowing.

He said to Adam: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you. You will eat the plants of the field.

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.

That which the gnawing locust left the swarming locust ate. That which the swarming locust left the creeping locust ate. That which the creeping locust left other locusts ate.

I will make up to you the years that the locust has eaten, my great army that I sent among you.

I struck you with scorching and mildew. The caterpillar has devoured the multitudes of your gardens, your vineyards, your fig trees and your olive-trees. Yet you have not returned to me, said Jehovah.

She considers a field and buys it. With the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.

He cut down cedars, or cypress or oak. He let it grow among the trees of the forest, or planted a pine, and the rain made it grow.

We were all in the field tying up sheaves of wheat. My sheaf got up and stood up straight. Yours formed a circle around mine and bowed down to it.

Let both grow together until the harvest. In the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather weeds first, and bind them in bundles to burn them. Then gather the wheat into my barn.'

He told them many illustrations. He said: A farmer went out to sow. Some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds devoured them. Others fell on rocky places and did not have much soil. read more.
When they grew, the sun scorched them, and because they had no root they withered and died. Others fell upon the thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them. Some fell on good ground and yielded fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand, the evil one takes away that which was sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside. Anyone sown among the rocky places hears the word and immediately with joy receives it. There is no root in him. He endures for a while. When he has tribulation or persecution because of the word, he falls away. read more.
He that was sown among thorns hears the word. The cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. He that was sown upon the good ground hears the word, and understands it. He bears fruit, producing sometimes a hundredfold, sometimes sixty, and sometimes thirty.

The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed some fell by the side of the road. It was trampled under foot and the birds of heaven devoured it. Other seed fell on the rock. As soon as it grew it withered away because it had no moisture. Still other seed fell among the thorns. The thorns grew with it, and choked it. read more.
Other seed fell on the good ground. It grew and produced fruit a hundredfold. As he said these things he cried. He said: He who has ears to hear let him hear. His disciples asked him what this illustration means. He said: You are meant to know the secrets of the kingdom of God. I speak to the rest in illustrations, that seeing they may not see and hearing they may not understand. Now the illustration is this: The seed is the word of God. Those by the side of the road are they who have heard. Then the devil comes and takes the word from their hearts that they may not believe and be saved. Those on the rock are those who receive the word with joy. These have no root. They believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away. The seeds that fell among the thorns are people who hear the word and go their own way. They are choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and do not produce fruit. The good ground represents the honest and good-hearted people. They hear the word, hold fast to it and produce forth fruit with patience.

Jehovah God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

Therefore Jehovah God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

Boaz is of our kindred, with whose servant girls you have been. He winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.

His winnowing shovel is in his hand. He will clean his threshing floor and gather his wheat into a barn. He will then burn the husks in a fire that cannot be put out.

Be diligent to know the state of your flocks and attend to your herds.

You will have enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance for your maidservants.

In the morning sow your seed. In the evening do not withhold your hand. For you do not know which shall prosper. Whether they both will alike be good.

He also built fortified towers in the open country and dug many cisterns, because he had large herds of livestock in the western foothills and plains. Because he loved farming, he encouraged the people to plant vineyards in the hill country and to farm the fertile land.

for the farm workers in the fields, Ezri, son of Chelub

He told another illustration, saying: The kingdom of heaven is like a man that sowed good seed in his field. While he slept, his enemy came and sowed weeds with the wheat, and went away. When the blade sprouted and brought forth fruit, it looked like wheat. read more.
The servants of the householder said to him: 'Sir, did you sow good seed in your field? Why does it have weeds mixed in with the good wheat?' He replied: 'An enemy did this.' The servants offered to remove the weeds. He said: 'No, you might uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. In the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather weeds first, and bind them in bundles to burn them. Then gather the wheat into my barn.'

Then he left the crowds and went into the house. His disciples gathered near him. They said: Explain to us the illustration of the weeds in the field. Jesus said: He that sows the good seed is the Son of man. The field is the world (the society of mankind). The good seed are the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one. read more.
The enemy that sowed them is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the age. The reapers are angels. The weeds are gathered up and burned (destroyed) with fire. It will be this way at the end of the age. The Son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all who stumble others and commit lawlessness. The angels will cast them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. The righteous will shine as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He that has ears let him hear.

They do not say in their hearts, to themselves: 'We should respect Jehovah our God. He sends rain at the right time, the autumn rain and the spring rain. He makes sure that we have harvest seasons.'

She did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

Jehovah God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

Therefore Jehovah God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.

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.

Noah, a man of the soil, planted a vineyard.

for the farm workers in the fields, Ezri, son of Chelub for the vineyards, Shimei from Ramah for storing wine that came from the vineyards- Zabdi from Shepham for the olive and fig trees in the foothills, Baal Hanan from Gedor for storing olive oil- Joash read more.
for the herds grazing in Sharon, Shitrai from Sharon for the herds in the valleys- Shaphat, son of Adlai for the camels, Obil, a descendant of Ishmael for the donkeys, Jehdeiah from Meronoth for the flocks, Jaziz from Hagar

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease.

Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.

He spoke an illustration to them: The land of a rich man produced well.

Can you bind the wild bull in the furrow with ropes? Or will he plow the valleys behind you?

My people planted wheat. They gathered weeds! They worked hard and got nothing for it. Because of my fierce anger their crops have failed.

He also built fortified towers in the open country and dug many cisterns, because he had large herds of livestock in the western foothills and plains. Because he loved farming, he encouraged the people to plant vineyards in the hill country and to farm the fertile land.

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.

He also built fortified towers in the open country and dug many cisterns, because he had large herds of livestock in the western foothills and plains. Because he loved farming, he encouraged the people to plant vineyards in the hill country and to farm the fertile land.

He instructs him in right judgment and his God teaches him.

I made great works. I built houses for myself. I planted vineyards for myself. I made myself parks and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all kinds. I made water pools from which to water the young trees.

Jehovah says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: Break up your unplowed fields, and do not plant among thorns.

Have you planted a vineyard and not used its fruits? Go home to your house and vineyard. If you die in battle another man will use its fruit.

Noah, a man of the soil, planted a vineyard.

Be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and late rains.

The hard-working farmer should be first to receive his share of the crops.

Jesus said to his disciples: The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.

Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.

Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.

The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had a large number of livestock. They saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was indeed a place suitable for livestock.

To the east they occupied the land up to the edge of the desert that extends to the Euphrates River, because their livestock had increased in Gilead.

Then Boaz said to Ruth: Listen to me, my daughter; do not go to pick up the grain in another field. Do not leave here, but stay with my servant girls.

Do not look at me because I am black. The sun has tanned me. My mother's sons were angry with me. They made me the keeper of the vineyards. I have not kept my own vineyard!