David Threshing Floor

And araunah said wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant.

David threshing floor. And david said to buy the threshing floor of thee to build an altar unto jehovah that the plague may be stayed from the people. But i will verily buy it of thee at a price. The location and method of making threshing floors have already been described under agriculture.

Cornuke makes the bizarre claim that the threshing floor that david purchased was actually located over the gihon spring in the city of david. The words threshing floor does not exist however you can find that phrase in the niv bible. Joseph with his kinsmen and egyptian followers halted for seven days at the threshing floor of atad to lament the death of jacob genesis 50 10.

Here is the hebrew word for threshingfloor and. David prophesied the building of the temple on this site the threshing floor of araunah or ornan the jebusite on the top of mount moriah. The lord ended the judgment and told david to build an altar on the threshing floor located on mount moriah.

10 the reason the temple was not built on top of the gihon spring is the same reason people do not put a toilet in the middle of the kitchen table where food is eaten. See jps asv dby wbs ylt 2 samuel 24 24 and the king said unto araunah nay. When araunah looked and saw the king and his officials coming toward him he went out and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground.

Threshing floors were used to separate grain from the chaff at harvest time. The word threshingfloor is found in the kjv but is not separated. But as one of his critics has put it.

As believers this link makes sense it s the cosmic place of god s victory over sin and where the power of death was stayed. These floors have come into prominence because of the biblical events which occurred on or near them. David built the altar and god honored his sacrifice with fire from heaven upon the sacrifice.