Agriculture

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Genesis 2:15 OT

  Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

• Genesis 3:19 OT

  You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

• Genesis 3:23 OT

  Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

• Genesis 4:2 OT

  Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

• Genesis 9:20 OT

  Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

• 1 Kings 19:19 OT

  So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him, and put his mantle on him.

• 1 Chronicles 27:26-31 OT

  Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub; and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite; and over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite; and over…

• 2 Chronicles 26:10 OT

  He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain. He had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved farming.

• Ecclesiastes 2:4-6 OT

  I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards. I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit. I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were…

• Jeremiah 5:24 OT

  They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’

• Hosea 2:8 OT

  For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

• Isaiah 28:26 OT

  For his God instructs him in right judgment and teaches him.

• Proverbs 27:23 OT

  Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

• Proverbs 27:27 OT

  There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food, for your family’s food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.

• Ecclesiastes 11:6 OT

  In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

• James 5:7 NT

  Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

• 2 Timothy 2:6 NT

  The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.

• Matthew 9:37 NT

  Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

• Deuteronomy 20:6 OT

  What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.

• Isaiah 5:10 OT

  For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”

• Isaiah 7:23 OT

  It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.

• Jeremiah 12:13 OT

  They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”

• Joel 1:10 OT

  The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

• Joel 1:11 OT

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