Theshing Floors Of Ornan

And so it is today spiritually.

Theshing floors of ornan. When david made the mistake of taking a census of israel he was given by the lord a choice of one of three punishments. The threshing theme is woven throughout the bible and in jewish thought. Threshing is essentially dividing separating the wheat from the chaff. Thus the temple the house of the lord was build upon the mount of sacrifice.

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. 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. Spurgeon at the metropolitan tabernacle newington. Araunah also known as ornan was the jebusite who owned the treshing floor on mount moriah which king david later purchased.

Ornan was probably the hebrew or jewish name of the owner of this threshing floor. At that time when david saw that the lord had answered him in the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite then he sacrificed there. Araunah his jebusite or canaanitish name. Threshing floors crop up excuse the pun a number of times throughout scripture and there s something in this agricultural process that god is wanting us to think about.

א ר ו נ ה ǎrawnāh was a jebusite mentioned in the second book of samuel who owned the threshing floor on mount moriah which david purchased and used as the site for assembling an altar to god the first book of chronicles a later text renders his name as ornan hebrew. Main street mission is a nondenominational christian inner city outreach ministry located in downtown manchester at 57 manchester st manchester nh. At that time it is owned by ornan who used it for threshing grain top. A sermon delivered on lord s day morning november 9 1884 by c.

The threshing floor of ornan stood upon mount moriah the very mount in which abraham was told to sacrifice isaac 2nd chron. Post 12 the threshing floor of ornan araunah the jebusite this week in weeklybiblereadingarcheology early in king david s reign the large hill to the north of the city of david mount moriah was still devoid of buildings. Go to people in the bible or women in the bible. The threshing floor of ornan at that time when david saw that the lord had answered him in the threshing floor of oman the jebusite then he sacrificed there 1 chronicles xxi.