From musings on scripture volume 1.
Threshing floor of ornan the jebusite.
When david made the mistake of taking a census of israel he was given by the lord a choice of one of three punishments.
This could be done by beating the grain or by using a threshing sledge an arrangement of heavy boards with abrasive.
Ornan the jebusite was a gentile living among the israelites during the time of david king of israel.
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.
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Ornan was probably the hebrew or jewish name of the owner of this threshing floor.
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.
At that time when david saw that the lord had answered him in the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite then he sacrificed there.
First the outer husk over the grain would have to be cracked so that the grain could be separated.
Spurgeon at the metropolitan tabernacle newington.
Araunah his jebusite or canaanitish name.
He owned a grain processing area called a threshing floor on the top of a mountain called moriah.
A sermon delivered on lord s day morning november 9 1884 by c.
This threshing floor was used to separate chaff and debris from the precious wheat.
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.
The threshing floor of ornan the jebusite.
That this world which is all his.
Then david built there an altar to adonai and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.
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.
At that time it is owned by ornan who used it for threshing grain top.
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.