The Threshing Floor Of Araunah The Jebusite

Second samuel 5 gives the account of david s capture of jerusalem which originally belonged to the jebusites.

The threshing floor of araunah the jebusite.

For the first seven years of his kingship david reigned in hebron over judah and benjamin. Purchase of araunah the jebusite s threshing floor. And david according to the saying of gad went up as the lord commanded. 2 sam 24 18 19 and gad came that day to david and said unto him go up rear an altar unto the lord in the threshing floor of araunah the jebusite.

Then david built there an altar to adonai and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. At the time the plague stops the angel of the lord was standing at the threshing floor of araunah the jebusite verse 16. 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.

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. A sermon delivered on lord s day morning november 9 1884 by c. 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. Raise up an altar to the lord in the threshing floor of araunah the jebusite god s word translation that day gad came to david and said to him go set up an altar for the lord at araunah the jebusite s threshing floor jps tanakh 1917.

Also called ornan 1 chronicles 21 15 a jebusite who dwelt in jerusalem before it was taken by the israelites the destroying angel sent to punish david for his vanity in taking a census of the people was stayed in his work of destruction near a threshing floor belonging to araunah which was situated on mount moriah. Spurgeon at the metropolitan tabernacle newington. Ornan was probably the hebrew or jewish name of the owner of this threshing floor. And the angel of the lord was by the threshing place of araunah the jebusite.

Araunah his jebusite or canaanitish name. At that time when david saw that the lord had answered him in the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite then he sacrificed there.