Agriculture or Husbandry

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 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 2:15 OT

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

• Genesis 3:17-19 OT

  To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days…

• Ecclesiastes 5:9 OT

  Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

• 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 27:23-27 OT

  Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds: for riches are not forever, nor does the crown endure to all generations. The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in. The…

• 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.

• 2 Timothy 2:6 NT

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

• 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.

• Proverbs 12:11 OT

  He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

• Proverbs 13:23 OT

  An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

• Proverbs 28:19 OT

  One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

• Hebrews 6:7 NT

  For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

• 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.

• 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.

• Matthew 9:37 NT

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

• Matthew 20:1 NT

  “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

• Isaiah 2:4 OT

  He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. 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…

• Jeremiah 31:24 OT

  Judah and all its cities will dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks.

• Jeremiah 50:16 OT

  Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest. For fear of the oppressing sword, they will each return to their own people, and they will each flee to their own land.

• Jeremiah 51:23 OT

  With you I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock. With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke. With you I will break in pieces governors and deputies.

• Genesis 9:20 OT

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