\nI 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.\n<\/p>\n
\nIt appears that this is a folklore<\/a> 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. \n[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] \nI 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading
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