Threshing Floor Of Ornan The Jebusite

Ornan was probably the hebrew or jewish name of the owner of this threshing floor.

Threshing floor of ornan the jebusite.

Araunah his jebusite or canaanitish name. Then david built there an altar to adonai and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Araunah also known as ornan was the jebusite who owned the treshing floor on mount moriah which king david later purchased. The angel of adonai was then by the threshing floor of araunah the jebusite 2 samuel 24 15 16 so david bought the threshing floor and the oxen for 50 shekels of silver.

1ch 21 28 then david said this is the house of the lord god and this is the altar of the burnt offering for israel. Araunah ornan the jebusite. Ornan the jebusite was a gentile living among the israelites during the time of david king of israel. A sermon delivered on lord s day morning november 9 1884 by c.

It is an affecting and solemn truth presented to us by scripture to which we desire that our thoughts may ever be fully subject that our god has through our transgression been separated from his due place as over the work of his own hands. A threshing floor like that sold by araunah would have been a large open elevated area to facilitate threshing and winnowing. That this world which is all his. From musings on scripture volume 1.

Spurgeon at the metropolitan tabernacle newington. This threshing floor was used to separate chaff and debris from the precious wheat. Go to people in the bible or women in the bible. The threshing floor of ornan the jebusite.

He owned a grain processing area called a threshing floor on the top of a mountain called moriah. When david made the mistake of taking a census of israel he was given by the lord a choice of one of three punishments. We see in the twenty third verse the noble generosity of this man in offering to present david with the threshing floor oxen instruments and wheat free of cost. First the outer husk over the grain would have to be cracked so that the grain could be separated.

At that time it is owned by ornan who used it for threshing grain top.