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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 5:7

Diligence 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; 20:1

Peace 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; 11:14,15

ENACTMENTS 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 22:5

Often 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; 13:30

BEASTS USED IN

• The ox
- De 25:4
• The ass
- De 22:10
• The horse
- Isa 28:28

IMPLEMENTS 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 3:12

ILLUSTRATIVE OF

• Culture of the Church
- 1Co 3:9
• Culture of the heart
- Jer 4:3; Ho 10:12
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