Isaiah 28:27

Moreover, the caraway seed is not threshed with a sledge, 1 nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cumin; 1 but caraway is beaten with a stick, and cumin with a rod. 1

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For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

In Context

26His God instructs him; he teaches him wisely. 1

28Grain is ground for bread but not too finely, 1 and though the wheels of his cart and his horses scatter it, his horses do not crush it. 1

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Cross References

2 Kings 13:7The Arameans left Jehoahaz with only fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the chaff at threshing time.

Isaiah 41:15Look, I am making you like a sharp threshing sledge, new and two-edged; 1 you will thresh the mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like chaff. 1

Jeremiah 46:28You, my servant Jacob, do not fear—this is Yahweh's declaration—for I am with you, so I will bring complete destruction against all the nations where I scattered you. But I will not destroy you completely. Yet I will discipline you justly and will certainly not leave you unpunished.”

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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