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Potter Scripture - Isaiah 64:8

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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Agriculture in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

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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Agriculture Scripture - Genesis 9:20

And Noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:...

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Agriculture in Naves Topical Bible

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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Agriculture Scripture - 1Kings 19:19

So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who [was] plowing [with] twelve yoke [of oxen] before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him....

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Agriculture Scripture - 1Chronicles 27:26

And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground [was] Ezri the son of Chelub:...

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Agriculture in Easton's Bible Dictionary

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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Agriculture Scripture - 2Chronicles 26:10

Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen [also], and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry....

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Agriculture in Smiths Bible Dictionary

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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Agriculture in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

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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