Threshing Floor Bible

There are dozens of references to a threshing floor in the bible some literal and some symbolic.

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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. A threshing floor is important in the biblical story of ruth and boaz. 1 chronicles 21 18 27 which later became the site of the temple 2 chronicles 3 1. 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.

The place where uzza perished because he touched the ark 1 chronicles 13 9. International standard bible encyclopedia. In biblical days there was no machinery so after the harvest the grain was separated from the straw and husks by beating it manually. Chidon the threshing floor of.

No name resembling either of these has been discovered. And he observed seven days mourning for his father. First there had to be a flat surface that was smooth and hard and this was known as the threshing floor.