Threshing-floor

The place where winnowing and threshing took place at harvest time.

The threshing-floor and agriculture

Genesis 50:10–11; Judges 6:37; Ruth 3:2–14; 1 Samuel 23:1; 2 Samuel 6:6 parallel 1 Chronicles 13:9; 1 Kings 22:10 parallel 2 Chronicles 18:9; Job 39:12

The threshing-floor as a symbol of harvest

Deuteronomy 16:13 See also Numbers 15:20, Numbers 18:27, Numbers 18:30; Deuteronomy 15:14; 2 Kings 6:27; Hosea 9:1–2; Joel 2:24

You are to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.

The threshing-floor as a symbol of judgment

Isaiah 21:10; Hosea 13:3 See also Jeremiah 51:33; Daniel 2:35; Micah 4:12; Matthew 3:12 parallel Luke 3:17

O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.

Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.

A threshing-floor was the site of the Jerusalem temple

2 Chronicles 3:1 See also 2 Samuel 24:16–25 parallel 1 Chronicles 21:15–26

Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.