Bible Concordances
Ploughing

Torrey's Topical Textbook

• The breaking up or tilling of the earth
  Jeremiah 4:3; Hosea 10:12

• Noah the supposed inventor of
  Genesis 5:29

• PERFORMED
  • By a plough
    Luke 9:62
  • With oxen
    1 Samuel 14:14; Job 1:14
  • During the cold winter season
    Proverbs 20:4
  • In long and straight furrows
    Psalm 129:3
  • Generally by servants
    Isaiah 61:5; Luke 17:7
  • Sometimes by the owner of the land himself
    1 Kings 19:19

• With an ox and an ass yoked together forbidden to the Jews
  Deuteronomy 22:10

• Difficulty of, on rocky ground
  Amos 6:12

• Followed by harrowing and sowing
  Isaiah 28:24,25

• ILLUSTRATIVE
  • Of repentance and reformation
    Jeremiah 4:3
  • Of peace and prosperity
    Isaiah 2:4; Micah 4:3
  • Of a severe course of affliction
    Hosea 10:11
  • Of a course of sin
    Job 4:8; Hosea 10:13
  • Of the labour ministers
    1 Corinthians 9:10
  • (Attention and constancy required in,) of continued Devotedness
    Luke 9:62