Agriculture or Farming
98 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
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- Beasts Used in The Donkey
- Beasts Used in The Horse
- Beasts Used in The Ox
- Climate of Canaan Favourable To
- Contributes to the Support of All
- Culture of the Church
- Culture of the Heart
- Diligence In, Abundantly Recompensed
- Enactments to Protect: Against Injuring the Produce of
- Enactments to Protect: Against the Trespass of Cattle
- Enactments to Protect: Not to Covet the Fields of Another
- Enactments to Protect: Not to Cut Down Crops of Another
- Enactments to Protect: Not to Move Landmarks
- Grief Occasioned by the Failure of the Fruits of
- Implements of The Axe
- Implements of The Cart
- Implements of The Fan
- Implements of The Flail
- Implements of The Fork
- Implements of The Harrow
- Implements of The Mattock
- Implements of The Plough
- Implements of The Pruning-Hook
- Implements of The Shovel
- Implements of The Sickle
- Implements of The Sieve
- Implements of The Teethed Threshing Instrument
- Man Doomed to Labour In, After the Fall
- Not to be Engaged in During the Sabbatical Year
- Often Performed by Hirelings
- Operations in Binding
- Operations in Digging
- Operations in Gathering out the Stones
- Operations in Gleaning
- Operations in Grafting
- Operations in Harrowing
- Operations in Hedging
- Operations in Manuring
- Operations in Mowing
- Operations in Planting
- Operations in Ploughing
- Operations in Pruning
- Operations in Reaping
- Operations in Sowing
- Operations in Stacking
- Operations in Storing in Barns
- Operations in Threshing
- Operations in Watering
- Operations in Weeding
- Operations in Winnowing
- Patriarchs Engaged In
- Peace Favourable To
- Persons Engaged In, Called: Husbandmen
- Persons Engaged In, Called: Labourers
- Persons Engaged In, Called: Tillers of the Ground
- Produce of, Exported
- Produce of, Given As Rent for Land
- Produce of, often Blasted Because of Sin
- Rendered Laborious by the Curse on the Earth
- Requires: Diligence
- Requires: Patience in Waiting
- Requires: Toil
- Requires: Wisdom
- Soil of Canaan Suited To
- The Cultivation of the Earth
- The Jews Loved and Followed
- The Labour of, Supposed to be Lessened by Noah
- The Occupation of Man Before the Fall
- The Providence of God to be Acknowledged in the Produce of
- War Destructive To
Beasts Used in The Donkey
- Deuteronomy 22:10 Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
Beasts Used in The Horse
- Isaiah 28:28 Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.
Beasts Used in The Ox
- Deuteronomy 25:4 Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
Climate of Canaan Favourable To
- Deuteronomy 11:10–11 For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden. …
Contributes to the Support of All
- Ecclesiastes 5:9 The produce of the earth is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
Culture of the Church
- 1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
Culture of the Heart
- Jeremiah 4:3 For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
- Hosea 10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
Diligence In, Abundantly Recompensed
- Proverbs 12:11 The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.
- Proverbs 13:23 Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.
- Proverbs 28:19 The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
- Hebrews 6:7 For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.
Enactments to Protect: Against Injuring the Produce of
- Exodus 22:5 If a man grazes his livestock in a field or vineyard and allows them to stray so that they graze in someone else’s field, he must make restitution from the best of his own field or vineyard.
Enactments to Protect: Against the Trespass of Cattle
- Exodus 22:5 If a man grazes his livestock in a field or vineyard and allows them to stray so that they graze in someone else’s field, he must make restitution from the best of his own field or vineyard.
Enactments to Protect: Not to Covet the Fields of Another
- Deuteronomy 5:21 You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Enactments to Protect: Not to Cut Down Crops of Another
- Deuteronomy 23:25 When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
Enactments to Protect: Not to Move Landmarks
- Deuteronomy 19:14 You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
- Proverbs 22:28 Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.
Grief Occasioned by the Failure of the Fruits of
- Joel 1:11 Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
- Amos 5:16–17 Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail. …
Implements of The Axe
- 1 Samuel 13:20 Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.
Implements of The Cart
- 1 Samuel 6:7 Now, therefore, prepare one new cart with two milk cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.
- Isaiah 28:27–28 Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod. …
Implements of The Fan
- Isaiah 30:24 The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
- Matthew 3:12 His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Implements of The Flail
- Isaiah 28:27 Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.
Implements of The Fork
- 1 Samuel 13:21 The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.
Implements of The Harrow
- 2 Samuel 12:31 David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
Implements of The Mattock
- 1 Samuel 13:20 Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.
- Isaiah 7:25 For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.
Implements of The Plough
- 1 Samuel 13:20 Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.
Implements of The Pruning-Hook
- Isaiah 18:5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.
- Joel 3:10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’
Implements of The Shovel
- Isaiah 30:24 The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
Implements of The Sickle
- Deuteronomy 16:9 You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.
- Deuteronomy 23:25 When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
Implements of The Sieve
- Amos 9:9 “For surely I will give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is sifted in a sieve; but not a pebble will reach the ground.
Implements of The Teethed Threshing Instrument
- Isaiah 41:15 Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.
Man Doomed to Labour In, After the Fall
- Genesis 3:23 Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
Not to be Engaged in During the Sabbatical Year
- Exodus 23:10–11 For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce, …
Often Performed by Hirelings
- 1 Chronicles 27:26 Ezri son of Chelub was in charge of the workers in the fields who tilled the soil.
- 2 Chronicles 26:10 Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.
- Matthew 20:8 When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last ones hired and moving on to the first.’
- Luke 17:7 Which of you whose servant comes in from plowing or shepherding in the field will say to him, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?
Operations in Binding
- Genesis 37:7 We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”
- Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”
Operations in Digging
- Isaiah 5:6 I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
- Luke 13:8 ‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it.
- Luke 16:3 The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my position? I am too weak to dig and too ashamed to beg.
Operations in Gathering out the Stones
- Isaiah 5:2 He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!
Operations in Gleaning
- Leviticus 19:9 When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
- Ruth 2:3 So Ruth departed and went out into the field and gleaned after the harvesters. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.
Operations in Grafting
- Romans 11:17–19 Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root, …
- Romans 11:24 For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
Operations in Harrowing
- Job 39:10 Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?
- Isaiah 28:24 Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?
Operations in Hedging
- Isaiah 5:2 He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!
- Isaiah 5:5 Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
- Hosea 2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
Operations in Manuring
- Isaiah 25:10 For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
- Luke 14:34–35 Salt is good, but if the salt loses its savor, with what will it be seasoned? …
Operations in Mowing
- Psalm 129:7 unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.
- Amos 7:1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.
Operations in Planting
- Proverbs 31:16 She appraises a field and buys it; from her earnings she plants a vineyard.
- Isaiah 44:14 He cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
- Jeremiah 31:5 Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit.
Operations in Ploughing
- Job 1:14 a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
Operations in Pruning
- Leviticus 25:3 For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.
- Isaiah 5:6 I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
- John 15:2 He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.
Operations in Reaping
- Isaiah 17:5 as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
Operations in Sowing
- Ecclesiastes 11:4 He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.
- Isaiah 32:20 Blessed are those who sow beside abundant waters, who let the ox and donkey range freely.
- Matthew 13:3 And He told them many things in parables, saying, “A farmer went out to sow his seed.
Operations in Stacking
- Exodus 22:6 If a fire breaks out and spreads to thornbushes so that it consumes stacked or standing grain, or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution.
Operations in Storing in Barns
- Matthew 6:26 Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
- Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”
Operations in Threshing
- Deuteronomy 25:4 Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
- Judges 6:11 Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
Operations in Watering
- Deuteronomy 11:10 For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.
- 1 Corinthians 3:6–8 I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. …
Operations in Weeding
- Matthew 13:28 ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. So the servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
Operations in Winnowing
- Ruth 3:2 Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
- Matthew 3:12 His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Patriarchs Engaged In
- Genesis 4:2 Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.
- Genesis 9:20 Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
Peace Favourable To
- Isaiah 2:4 Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.
- Jeremiah 31:24 And Judah and all its cities will dwell together in the land, the farmers and those who move with the flocks,
Persons Engaged In, Called: Husbandmen
- 2 Chronicles 26:10 Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.
Persons Engaged In, Called: Labourers
- Matthew 9:37 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
- Matthew 20:1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
Persons Engaged In, Called: Tillers of the Ground
- Genesis 4:2 Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.
Produce of, Exported
- 1 Kings 5:11 and year after year Solomon would provide Hiram with 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, as well as 20,000 baths of pure olive oil.
- Ezekiel 27:17 Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged wheat from Minnith, cakes and honey, oil and balm for your merchandise.
Produce of, Given As Rent for Land
- Matthew 21:33–34 Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey. …
Produce of, often Blasted Because of Sin
- Isaiah 5:10 For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
- Isaiah 7:23 And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
- Jeremiah 12:13 They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”
- Joel 1:10–11 The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails. …
Rendered Laborious by the Curse on the Earth
- Genesis 3:17–19 And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. …
Requires: Diligence
- Proverbs 27:23–27 Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds; …
- Ecclesiastes 11:6 Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.
Requires: Patience in Waiting
- James 5:7 Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil — how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.
Requires: Toil
- 2 Timothy 2:6 The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops.
Requires: Wisdom
- Isaiah 28:26 For his God instructs and teaches him properly.
Soil of Canaan Suited To
- Genesis 13:10 And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
- Deuteronomy 8:7–9 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills; …
The Cultivation of the Earth
- Genesis 3:23 Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
The Jews Loved and Followed
- Judges 6:11 Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
- 1 Kings 19:19 So Elijah departed and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve teams of oxen, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak around him.
- 2 Chronicles 26:10 Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.
The Labour of, Supposed to be Lessened by Noah
- Genesis 5:29 And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
- Genesis 9:20 Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
The Occupation of Man Before the Fall
- Genesis 2:15 Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
The Providence of God to be Acknowledged in the Produce of
- Jeremiah 5:24 They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
- Hosea 2:8 For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold — which they crafted for Baal.
War Destructive To
- Jeremiah 50:16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who wields the sickle at harvest time. In the face of the oppressor’s sword, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to his own land.
- Jeremiah 51:23 With you I shatter the shepherd and his flock; with you I shatter the farmer and his oxen; with you I shatter the governors and officials.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.