Isaiah 28:25
When he hath made it plaine, wil he not then sowe the fitches, and sowe cummin, and cast in wheat by measure, and the appointed barly and rye in their place?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
24Doeth the plowe man plowe all the day, to sowe? doeth he open, and breake the clots of his ground?
26For his God doeth instruct him to haue discretion, and doeth teach him.
Cross References
Exodus 9:31(And the flaxe, and the barley were smitten: for the barley was eared, and the flaxe was bolled.
Matthew 23:23Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye tithe mynt, and annyse, and cummyn, and leaue the weightier matters of the law, as iudgement, and mercy and fidelitie. These ought ye to haue done, and not to haue left the other.
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 →