Isaiah 30:24
in Isaiah 30The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
the oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savory provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
KJV
The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
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This verse in Isaiah 30
Commentary
8 notes on this verse(Verse 25.) On that day, the lamb will graze abundantly in your possession. And your oxen and donkeys, who work the land, will eat a mixture of barley and chaff, like it has been winnowed in the threshing floor. And on that day, your horses will graze in a fertile and spacious place. Your bulls and cows, who work the land, will eat the mixture of chaff and barley in the winnowed grain. In the abundance of all things, with heavenly rain descending, and with that bread which comes down from heaven, whoever eats it will never hunger again.
This site's exposition
give the rain of thy seed
on Isaiah 30:23-26
The blessing that follows repentance is drawn in the language of ordinary farm life, rain for the sown seed, bread fat and plenteous, cattle fed in large pastures, and oxen and asses eating clean provender winnowed with the shovel and the fan. Rivers open on every high mountain and hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall, and the light of the moon becomes as the sun while the sun's own light is multiplied sevenfold. Delitzsch reads the sevenfold light as figurative rather than literal astronomy, the language of a healed and bound-up people rather than a change in the created lights themselves.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 24) And rain will be given to your seed wherever you sow it in the land, and the bread of the earth will be most abundant and rich. LXX: Then rain will be given to the seed of your land, and the bread of the earth will be plentiful and rich. It is written in the Book of Kings (3 Kings 18) that after the false prophets were killed by Elijah, rain was given to the land of Israel.
The Medieval Church1 voice
And your oxen, as to cattle; and in both, he notes their fecundity, setting out their young, and the ass colts; and as to provisions for beasts of burden: mingled provender, pure barley with husks, which they ate mingled before.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
), and many of these promises are very applicable to gospel grace. A prophecy of the total rout and ruin of the Assyrian army, which should be an occasion of great joy and an introduction to those happy times,
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The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Asses were employed in tillage, as well as oxen (De 22:10). clean--rather, salted provender [GESENIUS]. The Arab proverb is, "Sweet provender is as bread to camels--salted provender as confectionery." The very cattle shall share the coming felicity.
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
The young donkeys that ear the ground - Hebrew, ‘Labouring,’ or ‘cultivating the ground,’ that is, plowing it. The Old English word “ear” (from the Latin aro) meant to till, to cultivate. The word is now obselete, but this is the sense which it has in the Bible Gen 45:6; Exo 34:21; Deu 21:4; 1Sa 8:
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהָאֲלָפִ֣ים | vehaalafim | and the cattle<s> | H504 → | |
| וְהָעֲיָרִ֗ים | vehaayarim | and the donkeys | H5895 → | |
| עֹֽבְדֵי֙ | ʾoedei | [which] work | H5647 → | 288 times |
| הָֽאֲדָמָ֔ה | haadamah | <of> the ground | H127 → | 225 times |
| בְּלִ֥יל | belil | fodder | H1098 → | |
| חָמִ֖יץ | chamitz | salted | H2548 → | |
| יֹאכֵ֑לוּ | yokhelu | they will eat | H398 → | 810 times |
| אֲשֶׁר־ | ʾasher- | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| זֹרֶ֥ה | zoreh | [someone has been] winnowing | H2219 → | 39 times |
| בָרַ֖חַת | varachat | with the shovel | H7371 → | |
| וּבַמִּזְרֶֽה׃ | uvamizreh | and with the pitchfork | H4214 → |
וְהָאֲלָפִ֣יםand the cattle<s>
vehaalafimH504 →
וְהָעֲיָרִ֗יםand the donkeys
vehaayarimH5895 →
עֹֽבְדֵי֙[which] work
ʾoedeiH5647 →288 times
הָֽאֲדָמָ֔ה<of> the ground
haadamahH127 →225 times
בְּלִ֥ילfodder
belilH1098 →
חָמִ֖יץsalted
chamitzH2548 →
יֹאכֵ֑לוּthey will eat
yokheluH398 →810 times
אֲשֶׁר־which
ʾasher-H834 →5497 times
זֹרֶ֥ה[someone has been] winnowing
zorehH2219 →39 times
בָרַ֖חַתwith the shovel
varachatH7371 →
וּבַמִּזְרֶֽה׃and with the pitchfork
uvamizrehH4214 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Matthew 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
it leads to
- Malachi 4:1
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of…
- Matthew 13:30
Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”
- Luke 3:17
His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
- Isaiah 41:16
You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
- Jeremiah 51:2
I will send strangers to Babylon to winnow her and empty her land; for they will come against her from every side in her day of disaster.
- Malachi 4:1
Through
Deuteronomy 25:4Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
it leads to
- 1 Timothy 5:17–18
Elders who lead effectively are worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.
- 1 Corinthians 9:9–10
For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?
- 1 Timothy 5:17–18
Through
Exodus 34:21Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 8:12
He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, to make his weapons of war, and to equip his chariots.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 Samuel 8:12
About Isaiah
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Isaiah; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.