1 Chronicles 21:20 meaning and explanation

Now Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.

1 Chronicles 21:20, Berean Standard Bible

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Ornan is a Jebusite, one of the peoples who lived in the land before Israel, and he is threshing wheat on the elevated floor where grain is winnowed. The scene follows the angel of the LORD standing with a drawn sword over Jerusalem, and the narrator pauses to show that the judgment was visible to an ordinary farmer and his four sons, who hid in fear.

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