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