17 Bible Verses about Ploughmen

Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground?

Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground;

or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, to thresh in hope of partaking.

But Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

So he departed thence, 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 unto him, and cast his mantle upon him.

But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that nation will I let remain in their own land, saith Jehovah; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:

and he will appoint them unto him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will set some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

And they that labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall till it.

But who is there of you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say unto him, when he is come in from the field, Come straightway and sit down to meat;

but he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondman from my youth.

Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished.