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Agriculture or Husbandry
The cultivation of the earth - Ge 3:23
The occupation of man before the fall - Ge 2:15
Rendered laborious by the curse on the earth - Ge 3:17-19
Man doomed to labour in, after the fall - Ge 3:23
Contributes to the support of all - Ec 5:9
The providence of God to be acknowledged in the produce of - Jer 5:24; Ho 2:8
REQUIRES
- Wisdom
- Isa 28:26- Diligence
- Pr 27:23-27; Ec 11:6- Toil
- 2Ti 2:6- Patience in waiting
- Jas 5:7Diligence in, abundantly recompensed - Pr 12:11; 13:23; 28:19; Heb 6:7
PERSONS ENGAGED IN, CALLED
- Tillers of the ground
- Ge 4:2- Husbandmen
- 2Ch 26:10- Labourers
- Mt 9:37; 20:1Peace favourable to - Isa 2:4; Jer 31:24
War destructive to - Jer 50:16; 51:23
Patriarchs engaged in - Ge 4:2; 9:20
The labour of, supposed to be lessened by Noah - Ge 5:29; 9:20
The Jews loved and followed - Jud 6:11; 1Ki 19:19; 2Ch 26:10
Soil of Canaan suited to - Ge 13:10; De 8:7-9
Climate of Canaan favourable to - De 11:10,11
WAS PROMOTED AMONGST THE JEWS BY
- Allotments to each family
- Nu 36:7-9- The rights of redemption
- Le 25:23-28- Separation from other nations
- Ex 33:16- The prohibition against usury
- Ex 22:25- The promises of God's blessings on
- Le 26:4; De 7:13; 11:14,15ENACTMENTS TO PROTECT
- Not to covet the fields of another
- De 5:21- Not to move landmarks
- De 19:14; Pr 22:28- Not to cut down crops of another
- De 23:25- Against the trespass of cattle
- Ex 22:5- Against injuring the produce of
- Ex 22:5Often performed by hirelings - 1Ch 27:26; 2Ch 26:10; Mt 20:8; Lu 17:7
Not to be engaged in during the Sabbatical year - Ex 23:10,11
Produce of, given as rent for land - Mt 21:33,34
Produce of, often blasted because of sin - Isa 5:10; 7:23; Jer 12:13; Joe 1:10,11
Grief occasioned by the failure of the fruits of - Joe 1:11; Am 5:16,17
Produce of, exported - 1Ki 5:11; Eze 27:17
OPERATIONS IN
- Hedging
- Isa 5:2,5; Ho 2:6- Ploughing
- Job 1:14- Digging
- Isa 5:6; Lu 13:8; 16:3- Manuring
- Isa 25:10; Lu 14:34,35- Harrowing
- Job 39:10; Isa 28:24- Gathering out the stones
- Isa 5:2- Sowing
- Ec 11:4; Isa 32:20; Mt 13:3- Planting
- Pr 31:16; Isa 44:14; Jer 31:5- Watering
- De 11:10; 1Co 3:6-8- Weeding
- Mt 13:28- Grafting
- Ro 11:17-19,24- Pruning
- Le 25:3; Isa 5:6; Joh 15:2- Mowing
- Ps 129:7; Am 7:1- Reaping
- Isa 17:5- Binding
- Ge 37:7; Mt 13:30- Gleaning
- Le 19:9; Ru 2:3- Stacking
- Ex 22:6- Threshing
- De 25:4; Jud 6:11- Winnowing
- Ru 3:2; Mt 3:12- Storing in barns
- Mt 6:26; 13:30BEASTS USED IN
- The ox
- De 25:4- The ass
- De 22:10- The horse
- Isa 28:28IMPLEMENTS OF
- The plough
- 1Sa 13:20- The harrow
- 2Sa 12:31- The mattock
- 1Sa 13:20; Isa 7:25- The sickle
- De 16:9; 23:25- The pruning-hook
- Isa 18:5; Joe 3:10- The fork
- 1Sa 13:21- The axe
- 1Sa 13:20- The teethed threshing instrument
- Isa 41:15- The flail, &c
- Isa 28:27- The cart
- 1Sa 6:7; Isa 28:27,28- The shovel
- Isa 30:24- The sieve
- Am 9:9- The fan
- Isa 30:24; Mt 3:12ILLUSTRATIVE OF
- Culture of the Church
- 1Co 3:9- Culture of the heart
- Jer 4:3; Ho 10:12 Next Topic (Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God)