Isaiah 28:24

Doth the plowman plow kol hayom to sow? 1 Doth he keep turning and breaking the clods of his adamah? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

In Context

23Give ye ozen, and hear my voice; 1 pay heed, and hear my speech. 1

25When he hath made level the surface thereof, 1 doth he not sow the dill, 1 and scatter the cumin, 1 and plant in rows the chittah (wheat) and the se'orah (barley) in the appointed place, 1 and the spelt in their place? 1

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Cross References

Jeremiah 4:3For thus saith Hashem 1 to Ish Yehudah and Yerushalayim: 1 Break up your unplowed ground, 1 and sow not among kotzim (thorns). 1

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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