Threshing Floor Bible

Genesis 50 10 11 when they came to the threshing floor of atad which is beyond the jordan they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation.

Threshing floor bible.

David built an altar on ornan s araunah s threshing floor 2 samuel 24 18 24. The place where uzza perished because he touched the ark 1 chronicles 13 9. A threshing floor is important in the biblical story of ruth and boaz. In biblical days there was no machinery so after the harvest the grain was separated from the straw and husks by beating it manually.

International standard bible encyclopedia. No name resembling either of these has been discovered. Chidon the threshing floor of. In 2 samuel 6 6it is called the threshing floor of nachon.

David probably chose this place for his altar because it was on an elevation and the ground was already level and prepared by rolling. In those times if a woman s husband died it was very difficult for her to survive on her own and very often the woman would be redeemed by her husband s nearest kinsmen leviticus 25 25. First there had to be a flat surface that was smooth and hard and this was known as the threshing floor.