Seed
Every herb, tree and grass yields its own -- Ge 1:11,12,29. Each kind of, has its own body -- 1Co 15:38. Sowing of Time for, called seed time. -- Ge 8:22. Necessary to its productiveness. -- Joh 12:24; 1Co 15:36. Required constant diligence. -- Ec 11:4,6. Often attended with great waste. -- Mt 13:4,5,7. Often attended with danger. -- Ps 126:5,6. Yearly return of time of sowing, secured by covenant -- Ge 8:21,22. The ground carefully ploughed, and prepared for -- Isa 28:24,25. Often sown beside rivers -- Ec 11:1; Isa 32:20. Often trodden into the ground, by the feet of oxen -- Isa 32:20. Required to be watered by the rain -- Isa 55:10. In Egypt required to be artificially watered -- De 11:10. Yielded an abundant increase in Canaan -- Ge 26:12; Mt 13:23. Mosaic laws respecting Different kinds of, not to be sown in the same field. -- Le 19:19; De 22:9. If dry, exempted from uncleanness though touched by an unclean thing. -- Le 11:37. If wet, rendered unclean by contact with an unclean thing. -- Le 11:38. The tithe of, to be given to God. -- Le 27:30. Not to be sown during the sabbatical year. -- Le 25:4,20. Not to be sown in year of jubilee. -- Le 25:11. Difference between, and the plant which grows from it, noticed -- 1Co 15:37,38. The Jews punished by Its rotting in the ground. -- Joe 1:17; Mal 2:3. Its yielding but little increase. -- Isa 5:10; Hag 1:6. Its increase being consumed by locusts. -- De 28:38; Joe 1:4. Its increase being consume by enemies. -- Le 26:16; De 28:33,51. Its being choked by thorns. -- Jer 12:13; Mt 13:7. Illustrative of The word of God. -- Lu 8:11; 1Pe 1:23. Spiritual life. -- 1Jo 3:9. Sowing, illustrative of Preaching the gospel. -- Mt 13:3,32; 1Co 9:11. Scattering or dispersing a people. -- Zec 10:9. Christian liberality. -- Ec 11:6; 2Co 9:6. Men's works producing a corresponding recompence. -- Job 4:8; Ho 10:12; Ga 6:7,8. The death of Christ and its effects. -- Joh 12:24. The burial of the body. -- 1Co 15:36-38.