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.
18
They came back to him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, "Didn't I tell you, 'Don't go?'"
19
The men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, we pray you, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees: but the water is bad, and the land miscarries.
20
He said, Bring me a new jar, and put salt therein. They brought it to him.
21
He went forth to the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, and said, Thus says Yahweh, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from there any more death or miscarrying.
22
So the waters were healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.