2 Kings 2:20 BSB — MannaFest

2 Kings 2:20

“Bring me a new bowl,” he replied, “and put some salt in it.” So they brought it to him,

BSB

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ASV

And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.

KJV

And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

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.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

A new cruse - That there might be no legal pollution in it which might offend God, and hinder his miraculous operation. Put salt - A most improper remedy; for salt naturally makes waters brackish, and lands barren. Hereby therefore he would shew, that this was effected solely by the Divine power, which could work either without means, or against them.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The “new cruse” and the “salt” are evidently chosen from a regard to symbolizm. The foul stream represents sin, and to cleanse it emblems of purity must he taken. Hence, the clean “new” dish previously unused, and thus untainted; and the salt, a common Scriptural symbol of incorruption (see Lev 2:13; Eze 43:24; Mat 5:13, etc.).

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֗אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
קְחוּ־	ke.chu-	fetch	H3947 →
לִי֙	li	for me
צְלֹחִ֣ית	tze.lo.Chit	a jar	H6746 →
חֲדָשָׁ֔ה	cha.da.Shah	new	H2319 →
וְשִׂ֥ימוּ	ve.Si.mu	and put	H7760 →
שָׁ֖ם	sham	there	H8033 →
מֶ֑לַח	Me.lach	salt	H4417 →
וַיִּקְח֖וּ	vai.yik.Chu	and they took [it]	H3947 →
אֵלָֽיו׃	'e.Lav	to him	H413 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H4417melachsalt27×

The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 29:23
  All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the…
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 15:1–9
  This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!
- Isaiah 11:14
  They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites…
- Isaiah 25:10
  For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
- Jeremiah 48:1
  Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it will be devastated. Kiriathaim will be captured and disgraced; the fortress will be shattered and…
Through
Judges 9:45
And all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.
leads to
- 2 Kings 3:25
  They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones…
Through
Ezekiel 47:11
But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
leads to
- Revelation 22:11
  Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to practice righteousness, and the holy continue to be holy.”
- Hebrews 10:26–31
  If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

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Where the connections lead

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Related verses

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About 2 Kings