17 Bible Verses about Ploughmen

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

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

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, 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 every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

Or saith he this altogether for our sakes? for our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

And Jesus said to 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 time of plowing 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 by him, and cast his mantle upon him.

But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vine-dressers and husbandmen.

But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vine-dressers and for husbandmen.

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

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 him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to till his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.

But which of you having a servant plowing, or feeding cattle, will say to him immediately, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to eat?

But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vine-dressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field hath perished.