Post 12 the threshing floor of ornan araunah the jebusite this week in weeklybiblereadingarcheology.
Threshing floor of ornan the jebusite.
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.
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.
21 15 15 and god sent an angel unto jerusalem to destroy it.
א ר נ ן ārənān.
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.
Araunah also known as ornan was the jebusite who owned the treshing floor on mount moriah which king david later purchased.
Early in king david s reign the large hill to the north of the city of david mount moriah was still devoid of buildings.
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.
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.
David chose the pestilence upon israel in which 70 000 men died.
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.
And the angel of the lord stood by the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite in this verse we have the threshing floor of ornan first brought within view a mean spot in itself but destined of the lord to be the joy of the whole earth.
At that time it is owned by ornan who used it for threshing grain top.
Araunah his jebusite or canaanitish name.
And the angel of the lord stood by the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite 1 chron.