Threshing Floor Bible Study

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.

Threshing floor bible study. Threshing floors are in danger of being robbed 1 samuel 23 1. Then was the iron the clay the brass the silver and the gold broken to pieces together and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloor s. For this reason someone always sleeps on the floor until the grain is removed.

Eventually the temple was built on the same spot. Then david built there an altar to adonai and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Uzzah died near the threshing floor of nacon for touching the ark 2 samuel 6 6.

As the chaff was removed only the goodness of the grain was left. In examining references to threshing floors in the hebrew bible this dissertation will show that these agricultural spaces are also sacred spaces connected to yahweh. Divine control of threshing floors will be demonstrated as yahweh exhibits power to curse bless and save.

And the stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. Ru reveals herself to boaz on his threshing floor. It was a vital part of processing the harvest as the grain was useless while mixed in with the chaff.

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. These floors have come into prominence because of the biblical events which occurred on or near them. In syria at the threshing season it is customary for the family to move out to the vicinity of the threshing floor.

A threshing floor is important in the biblical story of ruth and boaz. And the wind carried them away that no place was found for them. The location and method of making threshing floors have already been described under agriculture.