Threshing Floor Of Ornan The Jebusite

א ר נ ן ārənān.

Threshing floor of ornan the jebusite. The first book of chronicles a later text renders his name as ornan hebrew. 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. And the angel of the lord stood by the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite 1 chron.

Araunah his jebusite or canaanitish name. Araunah also known as ornan was the jebusite who owned the treshing floor on mount moriah which king david later purchased. 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. 21 15 15 and god sent an angel unto jerusalem to destroy it.

And as he was destroying the lord beheld and he repented him of the evil and said to the angel that destroyed it is enough stay now thine hand. 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. 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. Ornan was probably the hebrew or jewish name of the owner of this threshing floor.

The place of the glory the rest of god and his israel. David chose the pestilence upon israel in which 70 000 men died. When david made the mistake of taking a census of israel he was given by the lord a choice of one of three punishments. 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 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.