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Thematic Bible



Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.


Your offering shall be reckoned to you as the grain from the threshing floor or the full produce from the wine vat.

So Gad came to David that day and said to him, “Go up, erect an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”


behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I will know that You will deliver Israel through me, as You have spoken.”

O my threshed people, and my afflicted of the threshing floor!
What I have heard from the Lord of hosts,
The God of Israel, I make known to you.


When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he observed seven days mourning for his father.


Then they told David, saying, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are plundering the threshing floors.”


He said, “If the Lord does not help you, from where shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”


Then the angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press in order to save it from the Midianites.


The threshing floors will be full of grain,
And the vats will overflow with the new wine and oil.


Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them,
And the new wine will fail them.


Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations!
For you have played the harlot, forsaking your God.
You have loved harlots’ earnings on every threshing floor.


When Boaz had eaten and drunk and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain; and she came secretly, and uncovered his feet and lay down.


Now is not Boaz our kinsman, with whose maids you were? Behold, he winnows barley at the threshing floor tonight.


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