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Bible Verses About Ploughing

21 verses · 17 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which the LORD has cursed.”

  2. You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

  3. That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow’s length in an acre of land.

  4. 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.

  5. that there came a messenger to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

  6. According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

  7. The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

  8. The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

  9. He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

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

  11. When he has leveled its surface, doesn’t he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?

  12. Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall work your fields and your vineyards.

  13. For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

  14. Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.

  15. Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

  16. You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

  17. Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;

  18. and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more.

  19. But Yeshua said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.”

  20. 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,’

  21. 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.