SEED: - Every herb, tree and grass yields its own Ge 1:11,12,29 - Each kind of, has its own body 1Co 15:38 - SOWING OF . Time for, called seed time Ge 8:22 . Necessary to its productiveness Joh 12:24; 1Co 15:36 . Required constant diligence Ec 11:4,6 . Often attended with great waste Mt 13:4,5,7 . Often attended with danger Ps 126:5,6 - Yearly return of time of sowing, secured by covenant Ge 8:21,22 - The ground carefully ploughed, and prepared for Isa 28:24,25 - Often sown beside rivers Ec 11:1; Isa 32:20 - Often trodden into the ground, by the feet of oxen Isa 32:20 - Required to be watered by the rain Isa 55:10 - In Egypt required to be artificially watered De 11:10 - Yielded an abundant increase in Canaan Ge 26:12; Mt 13:23 - MOSAIC LAWS RESPECTING . Different kinds of, not to be sown in the same field Le 19:19; De 22:9 . If dry, exempted from uncleanness though touched by an unclean thing Le 11:37 . If wet, rendered unclean by contact with an unclean thing Le 11:38 . The tithe of, to be given to God Le 27:30 . Not to be sown during the sabbatical year Le 25:4,20 . Not to be sown in year of jubilee Le 25:11 - Difference between, and the plant which grows from it, noticed 1Co 15:37,38 - THE JEWS PUNISHED BY . Its rotting in the ground Joe 1:17; Mal 2:3 . Its yielding but little increase Isa 5:10; Hag 1:6 . Its increase being consumed by locusts De 28:38; Joe 1:4 . Its increase being consume by enemies Le 26:16; De 28:33,51 . Its being choked by thorns Jer 12:13; Mt 13:7 - ILLUSTRATIVE OF . The word of God Lu 8:11; 1Pe 1:23 . Spiritual life 1Jo 3:9 - SOWING, ILLUSTRATIVE OF . Preaching the gospel Mt 13:3,32; 1Co 9:11 . Scattering or dispersing a people Zec 10:9 . Christian liberality Ec 11:6; 2Co 9:6 . Men's works producing a corresponding recompence Job 4:8; Ho 10:12
; Ga 6:7,8 . The death of Christ and its effects Joh 12:24 . The burial of the body 1Co 15:36-38