THRESHING

Passages on this topic · 40

• Genesis 50:10

  They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

• Genesis 50:11

  When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

• Deuteronomy 25:4

  You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

• Judges 6:37

  behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”

• Ruth 2:17

  So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

• Ruth 3:2

  Now isn’t Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he will be winnowing barley tonight on the threshing floor.

• Ruth 3:3

  Therefore wash yourself, anoint yourself, get dressed, and go down to the threshing floor, but don’t make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

• Ruth 3:4

  It shall be, when he lies down, that you shall note the place where he is lying. Then you shall go in, uncover his feet, and lay down. Then he will tell you what to do.”

• Ruth 3:5

  She said to her, “All that you say, I will do.”

• Ruth 3:6

  She went down to the threshing floor, and did everything that her mother-in-law told her.

• Ruth 3:7

  When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and laid down.

• Ruth 3:8

  At midnight, the man was startled and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet.

• Ruth 3:9

  He said, “Who are you?” She answered, “I am Ruth your servant. Therefore spread the corner of your garment over your servant; for you are a near kinsman.”

• Ruth 3:10

  He said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, because you didn’t follow young men, whether poor or rich.

• Ruth 3:11

  Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people knows that you are a worthy woman.

• Ruth 3:12

  Now it is true that I am a near kinsman. However, there is a kinsman nearer than I.

• Ruth 3:13

  Stay this night, and in the morning, if he will perform for you the part of a kinsman, good. Let him do the kinsman’s duty. But if he will not do the duty of a kinsman for you, then I will do the duty of a kinsman for you, as Yahweh lives. Lie down until the morning.”

• Ruth 3:14

  She lay at his feet until the morning, then she rose up before one could discern another. For he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”

• 1 Samuel 23:1

  David was told, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.”

• 2 Samuel 6:6

  When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached for God’s ark, and took hold of it; for the cattle stumbled.

• 2 Samuel 24:16

  When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

• 2 Samuel 24:17

  David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”

• 2 Samuel 24:18

  Gad came that day to David, and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

• 2 Samuel 24:19

  David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded.

• 2 Samuel 24:20

  Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. Then Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

• 2 Samuel 24:21

  Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”

• 2 Samuel 24:22

  Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

• 2 Samuel 24:23

  All this, O king, does Araunah give to the king.” Araunah said to the king, “May Yahweh your God accept you.”

• 2 Samuel 24:24

  The king said to Araunah, “No; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

• 2 Samuel 24:25

  David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.

• 2 Kings 6:27

  He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”

• Isaiah 25:10

  For in this mountain Yahweh’s hand will rest. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.

• Isaiah 28:27

  For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.

• Isaiah 28:28

  Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it.

• Hosea 9:2

  The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her.

• Hosea 10:11

  Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.

• Joel 2:24

  The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

• Amos 1:3

  Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;

• 1 Corinthians 9:9

  For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,

• 1 Timothy 5:18

  For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”