Theshing Floors Of Ornan

The threshing theme is woven throughout the bible and in jewish thought.

Theshing floors of ornan.

Main street mission is a nondenominational christian inner city outreach ministry located in downtown manchester at 57 manchester st manchester nh. Araunah also known as ornan was the jebusite who owned the treshing floor on mount moriah which king david later purchased. Araunah ornan the jebusite. 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.

At that time it is owned by ornan who used it for threshing grain top. Ornan s threshing floor is a selection of journal entries sermon parts and pieces and both secular and faith based writings by stephen carey pastor of main street mission. Threshing is essentially dividing separating the wheat from the chaff. Go to people in the bible or women in the bible.

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. The threshing floor of ornan stood upon mount moriah the very mount in which abraham was told to sacrifice isaac 2nd chron. Araunah his jebusite or canaanitish name. 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.

Thus the temple the house of the lord was build upon the mount of sacrifice. At that time when david saw that the lord had answered him in the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite then he sacrificed there. Spurgeon at the metropolitan tabernacle newington. Ornan was probably the hebrew or jewish name of the owner of this threshing floor.

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. 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. When david made the mistake of taking a census of israel he was given by the lord a choice of one of three punishments. Then david said this is the house of the lord god and this is the altar of the burnt offering for israel 1 chronicles xxii.