Isaiah 28:25
Will he not, when he has made the surface level, sow coriander, and scatter cumin, and plant wheat in rows, and barley, and millet, and vetch in their places?
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In The King James Version
In Context
24Would the plowman, after plowing all day so that he may sow, instead cut open and hoe his soil?
26For he will be instructed in judgment; his God will teach him.
Cross References
Exodus 9:31And so, the flax and the barley were damaged, because the barley was growing, and the flax was already developing grains.
Matthew 23:23Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you collect tithes on mint and dill and cumin, but you have abandoned the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, while not omitting the others.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 28:24-29
Husbandry a Divine Art. ( b. c. 725.) 23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. 24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? 25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? 26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. 27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument,… Read the whole commentary →