Ornan was probably the hebrew or jewish name of the owner of this threshing floor.
Threshing floor of ornan the jebusite.
When david made the mistake of taking a census of israel he was given by the lord a choice of one of three punishments.
Post 12 the threshing floor of ornan araunah the jebusite this week in weeklybiblereadingarcheology.
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.
א ר נ ן ārənān.
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.
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 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.
21 15 15 and god sent an angel unto jerusalem to destroy it.
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.
Araunah also known as ornan was the jebusite who owned the treshing floor on mount moriah which king david later purchased.
David chose the pestilence upon israel in which 70 000 men died.
Araunah his jebusite or canaanitish name.
The place of the glory the rest of god and his israel.
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.
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 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 first book of chronicles a later text renders his name as ornan hebrew.