◄ 2 Kings 2:20 ►
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Good News Translation
"Put some salt in a new bowl and bring it to me," he ordered. They brought it to him,

New Revised Standard Version
He said, “Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him.

Contemporary English Version
He replied, "Put some salt in a new bowl and bring it to me." They brought him the bowl of salt,

New American Bible
Elisha said, “Bring me a new bowl and put salt into it.” When they had brought it to him,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said: Bring me a new vessel, and put salt into it. And when they had brought it,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said: Bring me a new vessel, and put salt into it. And when they had brought it,

salt therein

Judges 9:45 And Abimelech assaulted the city all that day: and took it, and killed the inhabitants thereof, and demolished it, so that he sowed salt in it.

Ezekiel 47:11 But on the shore thereof, and in the fenny places they shall not be healed, because they shall be turned into saltpits.

Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha, the dryness of thorns, and heaps of salt, and a desert even for ever: the remnant of my people shall make a spoil of them, and the residue of my nation shall possess them.

Context
Elisha Heals the Waters of Jericho
19And the men of the city, said to Eliseus . Behold the situation of this city is very good, as thou, my lord, seest: but the waters are very bad, and the ground barren. 20And he said: Bring me a new vessel, and put salt into it. And when they had brought it,21He went out to the spring of the waters, and cast the salt into it, and said: Thus saith the Lord: I have healed these waters, and there shall be no more in them death or barrenness.…
Cross References
2 Kings 2:19
And the men of the city, said to Eliseus . Behold the situation of this city is very good, as thou, my lord, seest: but the waters are very bad, and the ground barren.

2 Kings 2:21
He went out to the spring of the waters, and cast the salt into it, and said: Thus saith the Lord: I have healed these waters, and there shall be no more in them death or barrenness.

2 Kings 2:19
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