Isaiah 28:25
When he has prepared the ground, does he not scatter caraway seed, sow the cumin, 1 put in the wheat in rows and the barley in the right place, and the spelt at its edges? + 28:25 The identification of some of these spices is in doubt, so versions have a variety of translations. In addition, some versions give different interpretations to the expressions translated here as in rows and in the right place , because these expressions are uncertain in Hebrew. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
26His God instructs him; he teaches him wisely. 1
Cross References
Exodus 9:31Now the flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was maturing in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.
Matthew 23:23Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, but you have left undone the weightier matters of the law—justice and mercy and faith. But these you ought to have done and not to have left the other undone.
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 →