The Harvest
36 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
31 sections
- (Cold In) of a Refreshing Message
- (Dew In) of God's Protection
- (Rain In) Honor Given to Fools
- A Time of Great Joy
- Called The: Appointed Weeks of Harvest
- Called The: Harvest Time
- Failure of a Cause of Great Grief
- Failure of a Punishment for Sin
- Failure of Occasioned by Drought
- Failure of Occasioned by Locusts
- Failure of Sometimes Continued for Years
- Fields Appeared White Before
- Former and Latter Rain Necessary to Abundance of
- Ingathering of Fruits of the Fields
- Legal Provision for the Poor During
- Men and Women Engaged In
- Miraculous Thunder In
- Not to be Commenced Until the First Fruits had been offered
- Omitted in the Sabbatical Year
- Omitted in Year of Jubilee
- Patience Required in Waiting For
- Persons Engaged in Binders
- Persons Engaged in Called Harvest-Men
- Persons Engaged in Called Labourers
- Persons Engaged in Fed by the Husbandman During
- Persons Engaged in Often Defrauded of Their Wages
- Persons Engaged in Reapers
- Persons Engaged in Received Wages
- Slothfulness During, Ruinous
- The Sabbath to Observed During
- To Continue Without Intermission
(Cold In) of a Refreshing Message
- Proverbs 25:13 Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a trustworthy messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the soul of his masters.
(Dew In) of God's Protection
- Isaiah 18:4 For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
(Rain In) Honor Given to Fools
- Proverbs 26:1 Like snow in summer and rain at harvest, honor does not befit a fool.
A Time of Great Joy
- Psalm 126:6 He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.
- Isaiah 9:3 You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.
Called The: Appointed Weeks of Harvest
- 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.’
Called The: Harvest Time
- 2 Samuel 23:13 At harvest time, three of the thirty chief men went down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
- 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.
Failure of a Cause of Great Grief
- Isaiah 16:9 So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.
- Joel 1:11 Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
Failure of a Punishment for Sin
- Isaiah 17:10–11 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines — …
Failure of Occasioned by Drought
- Amos 4:7 “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
Failure of Occasioned by Locusts
- Joel 1:4 What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
Failure of Sometimes Continued for Years
- Genesis 45:6 For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
Fields Appeared White Before
- John 4:35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
Former and Latter Rain Necessary to Abundance 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.’
- Amos 4:7 “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
Ingathering of Fruits of the Fields
- Mark 4:29 And as soon as the grain is ripe, he swings the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
Legal Provision for the Poor During
- 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 23:22 When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.’”
- Deuteronomy 24:19 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.
Men and Women Engaged In
- Ruth 2:8–9 Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Do not go and glean in another field, and do not go away from this place, but stay here close to my servant girls. …
Miraculous Thunder In
- 1 Samuel 12:17–18 Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call on the LORD to send thunder and rain, so that you will know and see what a great evil you have committed in the sight of the LORD by asking for a king.” …
Not to be Commenced Until the First Fruits had been offered
- Leviticus 23:10 “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.
- Leviticus 23:14 You must not eat any bread or roasted or new grain until the very day you have brought this offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.
Omitted in the Sabbatical Year
- Leviticus 25:5 You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.
Omitted in Year of Jubilee
- Leviticus 25:11–12 The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines. …
Patience Required in Waiting For
- 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.
Persons Engaged in Binders
- 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.”
- Psalm 129:7 unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.
Persons Engaged in Called Harvest-Men
- 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.
Persons Engaged in Called Labourers
- Matthew 9:37 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
Persons Engaged in Fed by the Husbandman During
- Ruth 2:14 At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.
Persons Engaged in Often Defrauded of Their Wages
- James 5:4 Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
Persons Engaged in Reapers
- Ruth 2:4 Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and said to the harvesters, “The LORD be with you.” “The LORD bless you,” they replied.
Persons Engaged in Received Wages
- John 4:35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
Slothfulness During, Ruinous
- Proverbs 10:5 He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.
The Sabbath to Observed During
- Exodus 34:21 Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.
To Continue Without Intermission
- Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
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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.