So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.
And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man. But God was also grieved in what he saw and relented: So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.ĭavid suffered greatly watching 70,000 of his army die suddenly from the arm of the destroying angel sent to administer the chosen punishment for David's disobedience. And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. And the king said unto Araunah, Nay but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee. All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood. And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing floor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people. And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground. And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded. Looking forward, this same stone floor becomes the place where Jesus faces his trial, punishment and death.Ī man named Arunah is the owner of this threshing floor in 2nd Samuel: And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. It is pivotal in that, looking back, the floor area is thought to be the place where Abraham offered his son Isaac. The threshing floor here in 2 Samuel is pivotal in the story of King David and his decision to go against God's will and count his fighting men.
The wind would then blow away the unusable hull or chaff and leave the good kernel for the making of bread.
The threshing floor was a large stone or rock area where harvested grain could be brought to, deposited on the stone surface, and then broken down with mallets to separate the chaff from the kernel. The Smith family had fallen on hard times and they seized on the offer to escape England by making the arduous 16,000 km sea journey to Sydney Town, in hopes of a fresh start.And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite (2nd Samuel 24.16). The workhouses were so filled with paupers that the local parish decided the solution was to recruit 200 agricultural workers to emigrate to NSW. Depressed wages in the fruit growing area of Sussex had led hungry agricultural labourers to riot in 1830 and the Smith’s hometown of Beckley was in the eye of the storm. Maria, with her husband Thomas and five children, had arrived in the rough and ready colony of New South Wales with fifty other emigrant families packed aboard The Lady Nugent in 1838. ‘ So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.’ The ancient words the family chose to have carved into her headstone tell the heart-story of this simple woman pioneer. In a churchyard high on a ridge at Ryde overlooking the Parramatta River, family and friends have gathered to lay to rest Maria Ann Smith, aged 69. It’s March 1870 and summer in Sydney is turning to autumn.
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