Isaiah 28:25

Does he not, when he has leveled the surface thereof, then sow the small black poppy, or cumin, and afterward sow wheat, and barley, and millet, and bread corn in thy borders?

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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 rie in their place?

In Context

24Will the plowman plow all the day? or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the ground?

26So thou shalt be chastened by the judgment of thy God, and shalt rejoice.

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Cross References

Exodus 9:31And the flax and the barley were smitten, for the barley was advanced, and the flax was seeding.

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 →

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