The Threshing Floor

#152 Oxen thresh grain and men separate kernels from straw. Genesis 50.10-11 Then they came to the threshing floor of Aʹtad, which is in the region of the Jordan, and there they carried on a very great and bitter mourning, and he kept mourning for his father seven days. 11 The inhabitants of the land, the Caʹnaan·ites, saw them mourning at the threshing floor

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A Threshing Floor In the ancient world, farmers used threshing floors to separate grain from its inedible husk (chaff) by beating it...

Ruth gleaning in the fields of Boaz, 1886 - by Alexandre Cabanel (1823 - 1889), French

Threshing floor, Flerio, Naxos

The threshing floor reminds us that God rescues, redeems, and restores on a daily basis. We might not always see His hand, but we can know He is working!

But more importantly, is the fact that many non-agricultural activities were performed on the threshing floor.

After David’s sin in the the matter of taking a census of the people of Israel, and his acknowledgment of the sin, he was told by Gad to build an altar (2 Samuel 24:1-10). The instructions ar…