Threshing
The removing or separating corn, &c form the straw -- 1Ch 21:20. Was performed By a rod or staff. -- Isa 28:27. By cart wheels. -- Isa 28:27,28. By instruments with teeth. -- Isa 41:15; Am 1:3. By the feet of horses and oxen. -- Isa 28:28; Ho 10:11; 2Sa 24:22. Cattle employed in, not to be muzzled -- De 25:4; 1Co 9:9; 1Ti 5:18. Continued until the vintage in years of abundance -- Le 26:5. The place for Called the floor. -- Jdj 6:37; Isa 21:10. Called the threshing floor. -- Nu 18:27; 2Sa 24:18. Called the barn-floor. -- 2Ki 6:27. Called the corn-floor. -- Ho 9:1. Was large and roomy. -- Ge 50:10. Generally on high ground. -- 1Ch 21:18; 2Ch 3:1. Sometimes beside the wine-press for concealment. -- Jdj 6:11. Used for winnowing the corn. -- Ru 3:2. Often robbed. -- 1Sa 23:1. The Jews slept on, during the time of. -- Ru 3:7. Fulness of, promised as a blessing. -- Joe 2:24. Scarcity in, a punishment. -- Ho 9:2. Followed by a winnowing with a shovel or fan -- Isa 30:24; 41:16; Mt 3:12. Illustrative Of the judgments of God. -- Isa 21:10; Jer 51:33; Hab 3:12. Of the labours of ministers. -- 1Co 9:9,10. Of the church in her conquests. -- Isa 41:15,16; Mic 4:13. (Gathering the sheaves for,) of preparing the enemies of the Church for judgments. -- Mic 4:12. (Dust made by,) of complete destruction. -- 2Ki 13:7; Isa 41:15. (An instrument for, with teeth,) of the Church overcoming opposition. -- Isa 41:15.