Ecclesiastes 5:9
"Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field."
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- Psalms 115:16
"The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men."
Read in chapter → - 1 Kings 4:7
"And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 104:14
"He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;"
Read in chapter → - Genesis 1:29
"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 28:19
"He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough."
Read in chapter → - 1 Samuel 8:12
"And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 13:23
"Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 3:17
"And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;"
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 27:23
"Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds."
Read in chapter → - 1 Chronicles 27:26
"And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:"
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