Jebusite Threshing Floor

And david according to the saying of gad went up as the lord commanded.

Jebusite threshing floor.

King david purchases the threshing floor of araunah the jebusite and according to one classic rabbinic opinion the entire city of yerushalayim jerusalem. 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 and gad came that day to david and said unto him. 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. First the outer husk over the grain would have to be cracked so that the grain could be separated.

And the angel of the lord was by the threshing place of araunah the jebusite. It was in the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite that the angel of the lord sheathed his sword and where the voice of the lord was heard it is enough stay now thine hand there by divine command the altar was to be reared. The threshing floor of ornan the jebusite. As this site would later become the location of the beit.

The lord s altar in a barn. It is an affecting and solemn truth presented to us by scripture to which we desire that our thoughts may ever be fully subject that our god has through our transgression been separated from his due place as over the work of his own hands. The altar hallows the barn. This could be done by beating the grain or by using a threshing sledge an arrangement of heavy boards with abrasive.

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. 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. That threshing floor the place where he intends to offer sacrifices is now called the har habayit temple mount in yerushalayim. Then david built there an altar to adonai and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.

That this world which is all his. From musings on scripture volume 1. Go up rear an altar unto the lord in the threshing floor of araunah the jebusite new american standard 1977.