The Threshing Floor Of Ornan The Jebusite

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.

The threshing floor of ornan the jebusite.

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. 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. Araunah his jebusite or canaanitish name. 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.

And the angel of the lord was standing by the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite. 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. 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.

Then david and the elders covered with sackcloth fell on their faces. At that time when david saw that hashem had answered him at the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite he brought offerings there. Ornan the jebusite was a gentile living among the israelites during the time of david king of 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.

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. At that time it is owned by ornan who used it for threshing grain top. This threshing floor was used to separate chaff and debris from the precious wheat. Post 12 the threshing floor of ornan araunah the jebusite this week in weeklybiblereadingarcheology.

Toward the end of the third day the angel of the lord is about to destroy jerusalem but relents. For the first seven years of his kingship david reigned in hebron over judah and benjamin. 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. At the time the plague stops the angel of the lord was standing at the threshing floor of araunah the jebusite verse 16.

Then david built there an altar to adonai and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Second samuel 5 gives the account of david s capture of jerusalem which originally belonged to the jebusites.