I heard a pastor attributed the brothers in this story to Araunah and Ornan. However, after years of patient searching, since none of the commetaries I've looked into suggest they are brothers, I found the background of this story after assuming that the attribution may have been a mistake. So I searched google with the keywords: brothers grain secretly.
It appears that this is a folklore about the origin of Jerusalem. It is about the brotherly love of two brothers secretly donating their harvest to each other because one felt the other needs to feed his wife and family while the other wished to provide enough for his brother through old age. While they kept taking out of their storages, they were amazed the next mornings to find as if nothing was taken out of their granaries. Until one night they met each other with their bags of rice on their way. Hence that meeting place being Mount Moriah, and the origin of Jerusalem.
[Source is believed to be of Arabic/Jewish origin, it's non-talmudic/non-midrashic: The Jewish tradition relates this story to King Solomon's solution by telling this story to another two brothers who brought dispute of lands to the king]
I find it amazing how this folklore gets linked to the dual identity of Araunah and Ornan by this pastor. Perhaps someday I would get the chance to ask him.
On the other hand, since the Jebusite Araunah's land was the site for the temple, it would be an interesting allusion to he being one of the brothers.
The field where those brothers share their love and affection through grains by dark, became the location for Jerusalem Tempe. A perfect place for brotherly love in which god rejoices.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brothers to dwell together in unity!” | Psalm 133:1
Thats why Jesus said “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, 24 leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.
Without brotherly love you cannot stand with God.
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I heard this story told by my rabbi when I was a young child, but more interestingly it seems to exist in other cultures. In my college years I played a video game called Maplestory, which was developed in South Korea and had many scenarios based on Korean folklore and mythology. In one scenario you are asked by someone to covertly deliver rice to his younger bother, because he’s worried the brother doesn’t have enough for his family. When you do, he (the younger brother) notices he has more rice than he should and tells you to secretly deliver some to the older brother. After going back and forth a couple of times the brothers realize what you’ve been doing for them and how much they care for each other. Despite being from a different part of the world, this is clearly the same story.