Agriculture or Husbandry

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Exodus 23:11 OT

  but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

• Matthew 21:33 NT

  “Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

• Matthew 21:34 NT

  When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his 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.

• Amos 5:16 OT

  Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: “Wailing will be in all the wide ways; and they will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.

• Amos 5:17 OT

  In all vineyards there will be wailing; for I will pass through the middle of you,” says Yahweh.

• 1 Kings 5:11 OT

  Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat for food to his household, and twenty cors of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.

• Ezekiel 27:17 OT

  “ ‘ “Judah and the land of Israel were your traders. They traded wheat of Minnith, confections, honey, oil, and balm for your merchandise.

• Isaiah 5:2 OT

  He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

• Isaiah 5:5 OT

  Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.

• Hosea 2:6 OT

  Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.

• Job 1:14 OT

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

• Isaiah 5:6 OT

  I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”

• Luke 13:8 NT

  He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

• Luke 16:3 NT

  “The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

• Isaiah 25:10 OT

  For Yahweh’s hand will rest in this mountain. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.

• Luke 14:34 NT

  Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?

• Luke 14:35 NT

  It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

• Job 39:10 OT

  Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?

• Isaiah 28:24 OT

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