1 chronicles 21 18 view whole chapter see verse in context then the angel of the lord commanded gad to say to david that david should go up and set up an altar unto the lord in the threshingfloor of ornan the jebusite.
Threshing floor of ornan.
It was in the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite that the angel of the lord sheathed his sword and where the voice of the lord was heard it is enough stay now thine hand there by divine command the altar was to be reared.
The lord s altar in a barn.
Ornan offers to give the land along with the bulls for a burnt offering and the threshing sledge as wood for the fire.
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 altar hallows the barn.
At that time it is owned by ornan who used it for threshing grain top.
And so it is today spiritually.
It is thought that ornan s threshing floor became the center of what was the great temple in jerusalem and what we today refer to as the dome of the rock 2 chron 3 1.
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.
And the angel of the lord stood by the threshingfloor of ornan the jebusite.
Ornan s threshing floor became a place of answered prayer and deliverance i chron 21 28.
Well what matters it.
Thus the temple the house of the lord was build upon the mount of sacrifice.
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 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.