Quotes About Agriculture

Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he would render to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.

Ashan, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, together with their pasturelands.

Aijalon, and Gath-rimmon, together with their pasturelands.

Hukok, and Rehob, together with their pasturelands.

Heshbon, and Jazer, together with their pasturelands.

Ezri son of Chelub was in charge of the workers in the fields who tilled the soil.

Shimei the Ramathite was in charge of the vineyards. Zabdi the Shiphmite was in charge of the produce of the vineyards for the wine vats.

Baal-hanan the Gederite was in charge of the olive and sycamore trees in the foothills. Joash was in charge of the stores of olive oil.

Shitrai the Sharonite was in charge of the herds grazing in Sharon. Shaphat son of Adlai was in charge of the herds in the valleys.

Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.

He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:

He struck their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country.

When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, and rye within its border.

Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.

The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.

With you I shatter the shepherd and his flock; with you I shatter the farmer and his oxen; with you I shatter the governors and officials.

Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.