or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.
So he departed there, 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 over to him, and cast his mantle on him.
and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, mattock, axe, and sickle;
yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.
Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;
"Behold, the days come," says the LORD, "that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills.
and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
"Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.
You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?
Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.
Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says the LORD of Armies: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'
The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" He said to them, "If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, you wouldn't have found out my riddle."
But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."
But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'
Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more.
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
"As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."
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