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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 19:19With 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
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