Bible Verses About Agriculture or Husbandry

¶ 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.

And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:

Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

¶ He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

¶ Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

¶ Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

¶ Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?

The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.

And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.

¶ He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

¶ Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.