'Plow' in the Bible
“You shall not plow with an ox [a clean animal] and a donkey [an unclean animal] together.
He will appoint them for himself to be commanders over thousands and over fifties, and some to do his plowing and to reap his harvest and to make his implements of war and equipment for his chariots.
That first slaughter which Jonathan and his armor bearer made was about twenty men within about half a [plow] furrow in a plot of land [the area of which a yoke of oxen could plow in a day].
“As I have seen, those who plow wickednessAnd those who sow trouble and harm harvest it.
“Can you bind the wild ox with a harness [to the plow] in the furrow?Or will he plow the valleys for you?
The lazy man does not plow when the winter [planting] season arrives;So he begs at the [next] harvest and has nothing [to reap].
Does the farmer plow all day to plant seed?Does he continually dig furrows and harrow his ground [after it is prepared]?
Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to tread out the grain,But I will come over her fair neck with a heavy yoke [for hard field work].I will harness Ephraim;Judah will plow and Jacob will harrow and rake for himself.
Do horses run on rocks?Do men plow rocks with oxen? [Of course not!]Yet you have turned justice into poisonAnd the fruit of righteousness into wormwood (bitterness),
But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back [to the things left behind] is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Or does He speak entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake: The plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the harvest.