Agriculture or Husbandry

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Ecclesiastes 11:4 OT

  He who observes the wind won’t sow; and he who regards the clouds won’t reap.

• Isaiah 32:20 OT

  Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.

• Matthew 13:3 NT

  He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

• Proverbs 31:16 OT

  She considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.

• Isaiah 44:14 OT

  He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a cypress tree, and the rain nourishes it.

• Jeremiah 31:5 OT

  Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria. The planters will plant, and will enjoy its fruit.

• 1 Corinthians 3:6-8 NT

  I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward…

• Matthew 13:28 NT

  “He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’

• Romans 11:17-19 NT

  But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree, don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is…

• Romans 11:24 NT

  For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

• Leviticus 25:3 OT

  You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in its fruits;

• John 15:2 NT

  Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

• Psalms 129:7 OT

  with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

• Amos 7:1 OT

  Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s harvest.

• Isaiah 17:5 OT

  It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.

• Genesis 37:7 OT

  for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”

• Matthew 13:30 NT

  Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

• Leviticus 19:9 OT

  “ ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.

• Ruth 2:3 OT

  She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.

• Exodus 22:6 OT

  “If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

• Deuteronomy 25:4 OT

  You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

• Ruth 3:2 OT

  Now isn’t Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he will be winnowing barley tonight on the threshing floor.

• Matthew 3:12 NT

  His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

• Matthew 6:26 NT

  See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?