Theshing Floors Of Ornan

And so it is today spiritually.

Theshing floors of ornan.

A sermon delivered on lord s day morning november 9 1884 by c. 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. Araunah also known as ornan was the jebusite who owned the treshing floor on mount moriah which king david later purchased. The threshing theme is woven throughout the bible and in jewish thought.

Araunah ornan the jebusite. Spurgeon at the metropolitan tabernacle newington. 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. Threshing is essentially dividing separating the wheat from the chaff.

Threshing floors crop up excuse the pun a number of times throughout scripture and there s something in this agricultural process that god is wanting us to think about. 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 threshing floor of ornan stood upon mount moriah the very mount in which abraham was told to sacrifice isaac 2nd chron. When david made the mistake of taking a census of israel he was given by the lord a choice of one of three punishments.

Ornan was probably the hebrew or jewish name of the owner of this threshing floor. 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. Go to people in the bible or women in the bible. At that time when david saw that the lord had answered him in the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite then he sacrificed there.

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. Thus the temple the house of the lord was build upon the mount of sacrifice. Main street mission is a nondenominational christian inner city outreach ministry located in downtown manchester at 57 manchester st manchester nh. Araunah his jebusite or canaanitish name.