Threshing Floor Bible Study

The threshing floor reminds us we have chaff or sin in our lives that we need to get rid of.

Threshing floor bible study.

These floors have come into prominence because of the biblical events which occurred on or near them. The location and method of making threshing floors have already been described under agriculture. Another famous threshing floor in the old testament is the threshing floor of araunah the jebusite who is also called ornan in 1 chron 21 which became the location of solomon s temple 2 sam 24. It is a flat surface usually smooth which is used during the harvest of grains.

The angel of adonai was then by the threshing floor of araunah the jebusite 2 samuel 24 15 16 so david bought the threshing floor and the oxen for 50 shekels of silver. So we need this reminder from 2 samuel 6 to stop at the ordinary places in our life much like uzzah. Then david built there an altar to adonai and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. In the old testament the threshing floor is used in the daily agricultural lives of men.

This space was used before equipment and machinery was invented. Old testament prophet hosea prophesied that israel would be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window hosea 13 3. When ruth returned home naomi asked. It was used to separate the grains from the chaff by manual separation.

The threshing floor is symbolic of judgment in the bible. There are dozens of references to a threshing floor in the bible some literal and some symbolic. First it is a place of blessing. It was the place where the grain of the harvest was actually taken from the sheaves.

Boaz gave ruth a gift when she left the threshing floor to return home and this reminds readers of the gift that judah gave to tamar after he had sex with her. As i read through the bible uses of the threshing floor it clearly has two connotations. 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. As such it was a place where the blessing was received.