And he said, bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein One that had never been used, that it might not be thought that the virtue was owing to anything that had been, or was, put into it:
and they brought it to him; the pot with the salt in it.
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So they returned to Elisha. He was staying in Jericho. Elisha said to them, "Didn't I tell you not to go?"
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The men of Jericho spoke to Elisha. "Look," they said. "This town has a good location. You can see that for yourself. But the spring of water here is bad. So the land doesn't produce anything."
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"Bring me a new bowl," Elisha said. "Put some salt in it." So they brought it to him.
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Then he went out to the spring. He threw the salt into it. He told them, "The LORD says, 'I have made this water pure. It will never cause death again. It will never keep the land from producing crops again.' "
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The water has stayed pure to this very day. That's what Elisha had said would happen.