Araunah his jebusite or canaanitish name.
Threshing floor of ornan the jebusite.
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.
At that time it is owned by ornan who used it for threshing grain top.
א ר נ ן ārənān.
א ר ו נ ה ǎrawnāh was a jebusite mentioned in the second book of samuel who owned the threshing floor on mount moriah which david purchased and used as the site for assembling an altar to god.
Ornan was probably the hebrew or jewish name of the owner of this threshing floor.
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.
The first book of chronicles a later text renders his name as ornan hebrew.
Araunah also known as ornan was the jebusite who owned the treshing floor on mount moriah which king david later purchased.
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.
The place of the glory the rest of god and his israel.
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.
David chose the pestilence upon israel in which 70 000 men died.
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.
And the angel of the lord stood by the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite 1 chron.
When david made the mistake of taking a census of israel he was given by the lord a choice of one of three punishments.
Early in king david s reign the large hill to the north of the city of david mount moriah was still devoid of buildings.