2 Kings 2:20

20 So he said, "Bring me a new bowl and put salt in it." So they brought it to him.

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.

2 Kings 2:20 In-Context

18 Then they returned to him while he [was] staying in Jericho. He said to them, "Did I not tell you not to go?"

19 The men of the city said to Elisha, "Please now, the location of the city [is] good, as my master can see, but the water [is] bad and the land unproductive."

20 So he said, "Bring me a new bowl and put salt in it." So they brought it to him.

21 Then he went out to the spring of waters and threw the salt [into it] there and said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'I hereby purify these waters; let there be no longer any death or unproductiveness from it.'"

22 Then the waters were purified until this very day according to the word of Elisha that he spoke.