17 Bible Verses about Ploughmen

Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground?

Give ear, and hear my voice; give attention, and hear my speech.

"Behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.

When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up--for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground,

Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.

Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."

"Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen in front of him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and cast his cloak upon him.

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

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

But any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to work it and dwell there, declares the LORD."'"

and over those who did the work of the field for tilling the soil was Ezri the son of Chelub;

And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.

And the workers of the city, from all the tribes of Israel, shall till it.

"Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come at once and recline at table'?

but he will say, 'I am no prophet, I am a worker of the soil, for a man sold me in my youth.'

Be ashamed, O tillers of the soil; wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.