2 Samuel 24:22

threshing instruments The threshing sledges, drawn by the oxen which Araunah offers for sacrifice. For a description of this implement see note on ch. 2 Samuel 12:31. The word there is different, and that used here is found only in 1 Chronicles 21:23 and Isaiah 41:15. Corn was either trampled out by oxen (Deuteronomy 25:4), or beaten out by these machines. See Smith's Dict. of Bible, Art. Agriculture.

other instruments of the oxen Omit other. The instruments of the oxen were the wooden yokes. Cp. 1 Kings 19:21; 1 Samuel 6:14. Chron. adds, "and the wheat for the meat offering."