Topic
Ploughing
21 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 5:29Torrey Noah the supposed inventor of
And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
- Deuteronomy 22:10Torrey With an ox and an ass yoked together forbidden to the Jews
¶ Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
- 1 Samuel 14:14Torrey PERFORMED — With oxen
And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.
- 1 Kings 19:19Torrey PERFORMED — Sometimes by the owner of the land himself
¶ So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.
- Job 1:14Torrey PERFORMED — With oxen
And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
- Job 4:8Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of a course of sin
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
- Psalms 129:3Torrey PERFORMED — In long and straight furrows
The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
- Proverbs 20:4Torrey PERFORMED — During the cold winter season
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
- Isaiah 2:4Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of peace and prosperity
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
- Isaiah 28:24Torrey Followed by harrowing and sowing
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
- Isaiah 28:25Torrey Followed by harrowing and sowing
When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
- Isaiah 61:5Torrey PERFORMED — Generally by servants
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
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- Jeremiah 4:3 Torrey The breaking up or tilling of the earth
- Hosea 10:11 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of a severe course of affliction
- Hosea 10:12 Torrey The breaking up or tilling of the earth
- Hosea 10:13 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of a course of sin
- Amos 6:12 Torrey Difficulty of, on rocky ground
- Micah 4:3 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of peace and prosperity
- Luke 9:62 Torrey PERFORMED — By a plough
- Luke 17:7 Torrey PERFORMED — Generally by servants
- 1 Corinthians 9:10 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of the labour ministers
In the topical indexes
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 23 references, grouped by sub-topic
Texts: Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.