Agriculture
45 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
21 sections
- Called Laborers
- Called Tiller of the Ground
- Divine Institution of
- Facts About
- Fallow Ground
- Fruits Blasted Because of Sin
- God to be Acknowledged In
- Laws Concerning
- Persons Engaged In, Called Husbandmen
- Planters of Vineyards, Exempted from Military Service
- Practiced by Cain
- Practiced by David
- Practiced by Elisha
- Practiced by Noah
- Practiced by Solomon
- Practiced by Uzziah
- Requires Diligence
- Requires Patience
- Requires Toil
- Requires Wisdom
- Sowing Wheat, but Reaping Thorns
Called Laborers
- Matthew 9:37 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
Called Tiller 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.
Divine Institution of
- Genesis 2:15 Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
- Genesis 3:19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground — because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
- Genesis 3:23 Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
Facts About
- Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
- 1 Samuel 13:19–21 And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not be allowed to make swords or spears.” …
- Isaiah 28:24–28 Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil? …
- Matthew 13:3–8 And He told them many things in parables, saying, “A farmer went out to sow his seed. …
- 2 Corinthians 9:6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
- Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
Fallow Ground
- 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.
Fruits 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. …
God to be Acknowledged In
- 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.
Laws Concerning
- Exodus 20:9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
- Exodus 22:5–6 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. …
- Exodus 23:10–12 For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce, …
- Exodus 34:21–22 Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest. …
- Leviticus 19:9–10 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. …
- Leviticus 19:19 You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.
- Leviticus 19:23–25 When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten. …
- Leviticus 25:2–12 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD. …
- Leviticus 25:15–16 You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining. …
- Leviticus 25:19–28 Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat your fill and dwell in safety in the land. …
- Deuteronomy 5:13–14 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, …
- Deuteronomy 22:9–10 Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled — both the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard. …
- Deuteronomy 23:24–25 When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket. …
- Deuteronomy 24:19–21 If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. …
- Proverbs 3:9–10 Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your crops; …
- Ecclesiastes 5:9 The produce of the earth is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
- Proverbs 27:23–27 Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds; …
- Matthew 12:1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.
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.
Planters of Vineyards, Exempted from Military Service
- Deuteronomy 20:6 Has any man planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy its fruit? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit.
Practiced by Cain
- 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.
Practiced by David
- 1 Chronicles 27:26–31 Ezri son of Chelub was in charge of the workers in the fields who tilled the soil. …
Practiced by Elisha
- 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.
Practiced by Noah
- Genesis 9:20 Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
Practiced by Solomon
- Ecclesiastes 2:4–6 I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself. …
Practiced by Uzziah
- 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.
Requires Diligence
- Proverbs 27:23 Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds;
- Proverbs 27:27 You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you— food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.
- 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
- 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.
Sowing Wheat, but Reaping Thorns
- 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.”
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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.