Temple Mount Threshing Floor

The temple platform and the threshing floor.
Temple mount threshing floor. Threshing floors were never built on hills but in curved valleys like directly under the al kas fountain. The next drawing of mount moriah that was prepared for our new temple mount guide book and now available in our image library shows what the mount would have looked like in the jebusite period araunah the jebusite was the last pre israelite ruler of jerusalem or jebus as it was then called. Whereas the mention of moriah in genesis could be referring to any mountainous region the book of chronicles says that the location of araunah s threshing floor is on mount moriah and that the temple of solomon was built over araunah s threshing floor. Then david built there an altar to adonai and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.
At the end of the second millennium bc the mountain was used for growing wheat and barley as. David prophesied the building of the temple on this site the threshing floor of araunah or ornan the jebusite on the top of mount moriah. This has led to the classical rabbinical supposition that moriah was in jerusalem. 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.
David built the altar and god honored his sacrifice with fire from heaven upon the sacrifice. The lord ended the judgment and told david to build an altar on the threshing floor located on mount moriah. The dome of the rock is the highest point of the temple mount. The prophet gad suggested the area to king david as a fitting place for the erection of an altar to yhwh since a destroying angel was standing there when god stopped a great plague in jerusalem.
This is a bit complicated so please bare with me. The temple in jerusalem over the threshing floor which is presently under the al kas fountain. According to the hebrew bible the temple mount was originally a threshing floor owned by araunah a jebusite. Again cornuke s only basis for this assertion is that since the temple was located in zion the threshing floor had to.
This is also a bogus argument.