Bible Concordances
Threshing

Torrey's Topical Textbook

• The removing or separating corn, &c form the straw
  1 Chronicles 21:20

• WAS PERFORMED
  • By a rod or staff
    Isaiah 28:27
  • By cart wheels
    Isaiah 28:27,28
  • By instruments with teeth
    Isaiah 41:15; Amos 1:3
  • By the feet of horses and oxen
    Isaiah 28:28; Hosea 10:11; 2 Samuel 24:22

• Cattle employed in, not to be muzzled
  Deuteronomy 25:4; 1 Corinthians 9:9; 1 Timothy 5:18

• Continued until the vintage in years of abundance
  Leviticus 26:5

• THE PLACE FOR
  • Called the floor
    Judges 6:37; Isaiah 21:10
  • Called the threshing floor
    Numbers 18:27; 2 Samuel 24:18
  • Called the barn-floor
    2 Kings 6:27
  • Called the corn-floor
    Hosea 9:1
  • Was large and roomy
    Genesis 50:10
  • Generally on high ground
    1 Chronicles 21:18; 2 Chronicles 3:1
  • Sometimes beside the wine-press for concealment
    Judges 6:11
  • Used for winnowing the corn
    Ruth 3:2
  • Often robbed
    1 Samuel 23:1
  • The Jews slept on, during the time of
    Ruth 3:7
  • Fulness of, promised as a blessing
    Joel 2:24
  • Scarcity in, a punishment
    Hosea 9:2

• Followed by a winnowing with a shovel or fan
  Isaiah 30:24; 41:16; Matthew 3:12

• ILLUSTRATIVE
  • Of the judgments of God
    Isaiah 21:10; Jeremiah 51:33; Habakkuk 3:12
  • Of the labours of ministers
    1 Corinthians 9:9,10
  • Of the church in her conquests
    Isaiah 41:15,16; Micah 4:13
  • (Gathering the sheaves for,) of preparing the enemies of The Church for judgments
    Micah 4:12
  • (Dust made by,) of complete destruction
    2 Kings 13:7; Isaiah 41:15
  • (An instrument for, with teeth,) of the Church overcoming Opposition
    Isaiah 41:15