New Torrey's Topical Textbook: Rev. R. A. Torrey

Threshing

• The removing or separating corn, &c from the straw 1 Chr. 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; Amos 1:3
  • By the feet of horses and oxen Isa. 28:28; Hos. 10:11; 2 Sam. 24:22
• Cattle employed in, not to be muzzled Dt. 25:4; 1 Cor. 9:9; 1 Tim. 5:18
• Continued until the vintage in years of abundance Lev. 26:5
• The place for
  • Called the floor Judg. 6:37; Isa. 21:10
  • Called the threshing floor Num. 18:27; 2 Sam. 24:18
  • Called the barn-floor 2 Ki. 6:27
  • Called the corn-floor Hos. 9:1
  • Was large and roomy Gen. 50:10
  • Generally on high ground 1 Chr. 21:18; 2 Chr. 3:1
  • Sometimes beside the wine-press for concealment Judg. 6:11
  • Used for winnowing the corn Ruth 3:2
  • Often robbed 1 Sam. 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 Hos. 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 labors of ministers 1 Cor. 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 2 Ki. 13:7; Isa. 41:15
  • (An instrument for, with teeth,) of the Church overcoming opposition Isa. 41:15