17 Bible Verses about Ploughmen
Most Relevant Verses
Does the plowman keep plowing all day in order to sow seed? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?
Give ear and hear my voice. Listen and hear my speech.
Behold, the days are coming, said Jehovah, that the plowman will overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes by the one who sows seed. The mountains will drop sweet wine, and all the hills will melt.
No shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth. No plant of the field had yet sprung up, for Jehovah God had not sent rain on the earth. There was no man to work the ground.
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.
Jesus responded: No man, who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.
You may work six days. On the seventh day you must not work. Even during the time of plowing or harvesting you must not work on this day.
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 let the poorest of the land go on living there, to take care of the vines and the fields.
Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, left some of the poorest people in the land to work in the vineyards and on the farms.
If a nation surrender to the king of Babylon and serve him I will let it stay in its own land. People will farm the land and live on it, says Jehovah.'
He will appoint them to be his officers over one thousand or over fifty soldiers. He will have them plow his ground and harvest his crops. He will require them to make weapons and equipment for his chariots.
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?
He will say I am no prophet! I am a tiller of the ground. I have been made a slave from my youth.
Be ashamed you farmers. Cry you vinedressers. The wheat, the barley and the harvest of the field have perished.
