Agriculture
But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and
thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand....
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ag'-ri-kul-tur, ag'-ri-kul-chur:
I. DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE
II. CLIMATIC CONDITIONS AND FERTILITY
III. AGRICULTURAL PURSUITS
1. Growing of Grain
(1) Plowing and Sowing
(2) Reaping
(3) Threshing
2. Care of Vineyards
3. Raising of Flocks
I. Development of Agriculture.
One may witness in Syria and Israel today the various
stages of social progress...
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Tilling the ground (Gen. 2:15; 4:2, 3, 12) and rearing
cattle
were the chief employments in ancient times. The
Egyptians
excelled in agriculture. And after the Israelites
entered into
the possession of the Promised Land, their
circumstances
favoured in the highest degree a remarkable
development of this
art. Agriculture became indeed the ...
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Divine institution of
Ge 2:15; 3:19,23
-Practiced by Cain
Ge 4:2
-Practiced by Noah
Ge 9:20
-Practiced by Elisha
1Ki 19:19
-Practiced by David
1Ch 27:26-31
-Practiced by Uzziah
2Ch 26:10
-Practiced by Solomon
Ec 2:4-6
-God to be acknowledged in
Jer 5:24; Ho 2:8
-Requires wisdom
Isa 28:26
-Requires diligence
Pr 27:23,27; Ec 11:6
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ag'-ri-kul-tur, ag'-ri-kul-chur:
I. DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE
II. CLIMATIC CONDITIONS AND FERTILITY
III. AGRICULTURAL PURSUITS
1. Growing of Grain
(1) Plowing and Sowing
(2) Reaping
(3) Threshing
2. Care of Vineyards
3. Raising of Flocks
I. Development of Agriculture.
One may witness in Syria and Israel today the various
stages of social progress...
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This was little cared for by the patriarchs. The pastoral
life, however, was the means of keeping the sacred race,
whilst yet a family, distinct from mixture and locally
unattached, especially whilst in Egypt. When grown into a
nation it supplied a similar check on the foreign
intercourse, and became the basis of the Mosaic
commonwealth. "The...
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While the patriarchs were in Canaan, they led a pastoral
life, and little attended to tillage; Isaac and Jacob indeed
tilled at times (Genesis 26:12; Genesis 37:7), but the
herdsmen strove with Isaac for his wells not for his crops.
The wealth of Gerar and Shechem was chiefly pastoral
(Genesis 20:14; Genesis 34:28). The recurrence of famines
...
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In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou
return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for
dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return....
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Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden,
to till the ground from whence he was taken....
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And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of
sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground....
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