Threshing Floor Of Ornan

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.

Threshing floor of ornan. 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. The significance of threshing. 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.

Ornan s threshing floor is a selection of journal entries sermon parts and pieces and both secular and faith based writings by stephen carey pastor of main street mission. When david had sinned and humbled himself before god he built an altar on the threshing floor 2 samuel. Thus the temple the house of the lord was build upon the mount of sacrifice.

The first book of chronicles a later text renders his name as ornan hebrew. The context of king david s initiative to purchase that threshing floor was the need to stop the angel of death who was exacting the punishment for sin. Main street mission is a nondenominational christian inner city outreach ministry located in downtown manchester at 57 manchester st manchester nh.

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. It was in the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite that the angel of the lord sheathed his sword and where the voice of the lord was heard it is enough stay now thine hand there by divine command the altar was to be reared. Eventually the temple was built on the same spot.

The threshing floor of ornan stood upon mount moriah the very mount in which abraham was told to sacrifice isaac 2nd chron. Well what matters it. 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 altar hallows the barn. The threshing floor is the place where our heart is purified by the work of the spirit. Early in king david s reign the large hill to the north of the city of david mount moriah was still devoid of buildings.