Threshing Floor Bible

The place where uzza perished because he touched the ark 1 chronicles 13 9.

Threshing floor bible.

Genesis 50 10 11 when they came to the threshing floor of atad which is beyond the jordan they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation. First there had to be a flat surface that was smooth and hard and this was known as the threshing floor. Chidon the threshing floor of. International standard bible encyclopedia.

No name resembling either of these has been discovered. In biblical days there was no machinery so after the harvest the grain was separated from the straw and husks by beating it manually. In 2 samuel 6 6it is called the threshing floor of nachon. There are dozens of references to a threshing floor in the bible some literal and some symbolic.

And he observed seven days mourning for his father. 1 chronicles 21 18 27 which later became the site of the temple 2 chronicles 3 1. A threshing floor is important in the biblical story of ruth and boaz.