As a final confirmation that jerusalem was something more than the city of david which was something more than zion.
City of david threshing floor.
At that time when david saw that the lord had answered him in the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite then he sacrificed there.
1ch 21 28 then david said this is the house of the lord god and this is the altar of the burnt offering for israel.
This is also a bogus argument.
Threshing floors are dirty were never built near springs.
22 david said to him let me have the site of your threshing floor so i can build an altar to the lord that the plague on the people may be stopped.
Cornuke s second main argument is that the threshing floor which david purchased for the location of the temple was situated within the city of david 2 samuel 24 18 25.
21 21 22 then david approached and when araunah looked and saw him he left the threshing floor and bowed down before david with his face to the ground.
The temple was built on a threshing floor.
David built and altar there to hashem and he offered elevation offering and peace offerings.
The first one being of what ophel rock sakrah sela or the threshing floor would have looked like as viewed by king david from the city of david.
I chronicles 21 22 30 david said to ornan give me the site of the threshing floor so that i may build an altar to hashem in it.
The reason the temple was not built on top of the gihon spring is the same reason people do not put a toilet in the middle of the kitchen table where food is eaten.
A sermon delivered on lord s day morning november 9 1884 by c.
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.
Solomon built the temple on the threshing floor david bought.
Ophel rock threshing floor 2 samuel 24.
Here is an angel in the area of the threshing floor which was in the city of david and he points away in the direction of jerusalem i e.
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.
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