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He replied, "Bring me a new bowl and put salt in it." After they had brought him one,
2 Kings 2:20 Meaning and Commentary
2 Kings 2:20
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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When they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you not to go?”
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The people of the city said to Elisha, “Look, our lord, this town is well situated, as you can see, but the water is bad and the land is unproductive.”
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“Bring me a new bowl,” he said, “and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him.
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Then he went out to the spring and threw the salt into it, saying, “This is what the LORD says: ‘I have healed this water. Never again will it cause death or make the land unproductive.’ ”
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And the water has remained pure to this day, according to the word Elisha had spoken.