The Threshing Floor Of Ornan The Jebusite

The tabernacle of hashem which moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were at the high place in gibeon at that time but david could not go before it to seek god for he was terrified before the sword of the angel of hashem.

The threshing floor of ornan the jebusite.

Ornan the jebusite was a gentile living among the israelites during the time of david king of israel. And the angel of the lord was standing by the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite. 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. He owned a grain processing area called a threshing floor on the top of a mountain called moriah.

Early in king david s reign the large hill to the north of the city of david mount moriah was still devoid of buildings. 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. Second samuel 5 gives the account of david s capture of jerusalem which originally belonged to the jebusites. This threshing floor was used to separate chaff and debris from the precious wheat.

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. 16 then david lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the lord standing between earth and heaven with his drawn sword in his hand stretched out over jerusalem. Toward the end of the third day the angel of the lord is about to destroy jerusalem but relents. 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.

At the time the plague stops the angel of the lord was standing at the threshing floor of araunah the jebusite verse 16. The lord chose the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite as the place where for many a day his holy worship should be publicly held according to the outward ceremonies of the old covenant. At that time it is owned by ornan who used it for threshing grain top. Ornan was probably the hebrew or jewish name of the owner of this threshing floor.

The first book of chronicles a later text renders his name as ornan hebrew. For the first seven years of his kingship david reigned in hebron over judah and benjamin. There the temple was built and for a thousand years it stood as the centre of divine worship as far as it was visibly presented according to his ordinance. Post 12 the threshing floor of ornan araunah the jebusite this week in weeklybiblereadingarcheology.

Araunah his jebusite or canaanitish name. At that time when david saw that hashem had answered him at the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite he brought offerings there.