Ploughing

Ploughing

The breaking up or tilling of the earth - Jer 4:3; Ho 10:12

Noah the supposed inventor of - Ge 5:29

PERFORMED

• By a plough
- Lu 9:62
• With oxen
- 1Sa 14:14; Job 1:14
• During the cold winter season
- Pr 20:4
• In long and straight furrows
- Ps 129:3
• Generally by servants
- Isa 61:5; Lu 17:7
• Sometimes by the owner of the land himself
- 1Ki 19:19

With an ox and an ass yoked together forbidden to the Jews - De 22:10

Difficulty of, on rocky ground - Am 6:12

Followed by harrowing and sowing - Isa 28:24,25

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of repentance and reformation
- Jer 4:3
• Of peace and prosperity
- Isa 2:4; Mic 4:3
• Of a severe course of affliction
- Ho 10:11
• Of a course of sin
- Job 4:8; Ho 10:13
• Of the labour ministers
- 1Co 9:10
• (Attention and constancy required in,) of continued
devotedness - Lu 9:62
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