The Threshing Floor Of Ornan The Jebusite

He owned a grain processing area called a threshing floor on the top of a mountain called moriah.

The threshing floor of ornan the jebusite.

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. Ornan was probably the hebrew or jewish name of the owner of this threshing floor. 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.

The first book of chronicles a later text renders his name as ornan hebrew. 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. 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. Ornan the jebusite was a gentile living among the israelites during the time of david king of israel.

For the first seven years of his kingship david reigned in hebron over judah and benjamin. This threshing floor was used to separate chaff and debris from the precious wheat. At that time it is owned by ornan who used it for threshing grain top. Toward the end of the third day the angel of the lord is about to destroy jerusalem but relents.

At the time the plague stops the angel of the lord was standing at the threshing floor of araunah the jebusite verse 16. And the angel of the lord was standing by 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 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.

Then david and the elders covered with sackcloth fell on their faces. Second samuel 5 gives the account of david s capture of jerusalem which originally belonged to the jebusites. 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 built there an altar to adonai and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.

Early in king david s reign the large hill to the north of the city of david mount moriah was still devoid of buildings. 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.