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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And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said to them, Did I not say to you, Go not?
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And the men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city [is] pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water [is] bad, and the ground barren.
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And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought [it] to him.
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And he went forth to the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren [land].
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So the waters were healed to this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spoke.