David Buys Threshing Floor

So david bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them.

David buys threshing floor. New king james version then the king said to araunah no but i will surely buy it from you for a price. Araunah instead offered to donate the site as well as oxen for the offering and the threshing sledges for wood. So david bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. 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.

But what has threshing got to do with it. David built and altar there to hashem and he offered elevation offering and peace offerings. So david bought the threshing floor and the cattle for fifty silver shekels. His presence had been glorious on the sandy floor of the wilderness in the midst of the curtains of goats hair.

We would like to show you a description here but the site won t allow us. 2 samuel 24 where david was instructed by the lord to buy a threshing floor to use as a temple site did my view of the threshing floor expand. 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. Then i will build an altar to the lord there so that he will stop the plague.

So david bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them. I chronicles 21 22 30. This offer is significant because these articles represent the whole of araunah s livelihood. And now it was gracious among the sheaves and the oxen.

1 kings 22 10 dressed in their royal robes the king of israel and jehoshaphat king of judah were sitting on their thrones at the threshing floor by the entrance of the gate of samaria with all the prophets prophesying before them. Not until i started looking at 1 chronicles 21. Nor will i offer burnt offerings to the lord my god with that which costs me nothing. David was to build an altar to the lord on this threshing floor 1 chronicles 21 18.

David built an altar to the lord there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. David went to araunah and told him what he intended and offered to buy the threshing floor. Hashem then answered the prayers of the land and the pestilence ceased from israel.