17 Bible Verses about Ploughmen
Most Relevant Verses
Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed?
Does he continually turn and harrow the ground?
Give ear and hear my voice,
Listen and hear my words.
“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“When the plowman will overtake the reaper
And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;
When the mountains will drip sweet wine
And all the hills will be dissolved.
Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.
But Jesus said to him, “No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
“You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest.
So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, while he was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. And Elijah passed over to him and threw his mantle on him.
But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.
But the nation which will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let remain on its land,” declares the Lord, “and they will till it and dwell in it.”’”
Ezri the son of Chelub had charge of the agricultural workers who tilled the soil.
He will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and of fifties, and some to do his plowing and to reap his harvest and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.
The workers of the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.
“Which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit down to eat’?
but he will say, ‘I am not a prophet; I am a tiller of the ground, for a man sold me as a slave in my youth.’
Be ashamed, O farmers,
Wail, O vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the harvest of the field is destroyed.