Ploughing
13 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
11 sections
- (Attention and Constancy Required In) of Continued
- Difficulty of, on Rocky Ground
- Followed by Harrowing and Sowing
- Noah the Supposed Inventor of
- Performed by a Plough
- Performed in Long and Straight Furrows
- Performed with Oxen
- Performed: During the Cold Winter Season
- Performed: Generally by Servants
- Performed: Sometimes by the Owner of the Land Himself
- The Breaking up or Tilling of the Earth
(Attention and Constancy Required In) of Continued
- Luke 9:62 Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Difficulty of, on Rocky Ground
- Amos 6:12 “Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
Followed by Harrowing and Sowing
- Isaiah 28:24–25 Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil? …
Noah the Supposed Inventor of
- 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.”
Performed by a Plough
- Luke 9:62 Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Performed in Long and Straight Furrows
- Psalm 129:3 The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.
Performed with Oxen
- 1 Samuel 14:14 In that first assault, Jonathan and his armor-bearer struck down about twenty men in about half an acre of land.
- Job 1:14 a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
Performed: During the Cold Winter Season
- Proverbs 20:4 The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
Performed: Generally by Servants
- Isaiah 61:5 Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.
- 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’?
Performed: Sometimes by the Owner of the Land Himself
- 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.
The Breaking up or Tilling of the Earth
- 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.
Related topics
Ploughing of a Course of SinPloughing of Peace and ProsperityPloughing of a Severe Course of AfflictionPloughing of Repentance and ReformationPloughing of the Labour MinistersPloughing with an Ox and an Donkey Yoked Together Forbidden to the Jews
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.