17 Bible Verses about Ploughmen

Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?

Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech!

"Behold, the days come," says Yahweh, "that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills.

No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking 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 there, 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 to him, and cast his mantle on him.

But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.

But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers.

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, says Yahweh; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:

and he will appoint them to 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.

Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.

But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'

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

Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.