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.