Agriculture or Husbandry
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Agriculture or Husbandry’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 97–113 of 113 verses grouped under this topic.
Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
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Isaiah 28:28 OT
Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it.
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but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, each man to sharpen his own plowshare, mattock, ax, and sickle.
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He brought out the people who were in it, and put them under saws, under iron picks, under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln; and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people…
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Isaiah 7:25 OT
All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for sheep to tread on.”
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You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.
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Isaiah 18:5 OT
For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.
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Joel 3:10 OT
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’
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The price was one payim each to sharpen mattocks, plowshares, pitchforks, axes, and goads.
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Isaiah 41:15 OT
Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff.
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Isaiah 28:27 OT
For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.
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1 Samuel 6:7 OT
“Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart and two milk cows on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them;
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Isaiah 30:24 OT
The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
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Amos 9:9 OT
“For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.
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For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
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Jeremiah 4:3 OT
For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.
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Hosea 10:12 OT
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.