Salt
11 lines · 24 passages
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Lot’s wife turned into a pillar of
Gen 19:26
26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Genesis 19:26 -
The city of Salt
Josh 15:62
62 And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six cities with their villages.
Joshua 15:62 -
The valley of salt
2 Sam 8:13; 2 Kgs 14:7
13 And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.
2 Samuel 8:137 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
2 Kings 14:7 -
Salt Sea
Gen 14:3; Num 34:12; Deut 3:17; Josh 3:16; 12:3; 15:2
3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
Genesis 14:312 And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.
Numbers 34:1217 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward.
Deuteronomy 3:1716 That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
Joshua 3:163 And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Bethjeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdothpisgah:
Joshua 12:32 And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:
Joshua 15:2 -
Salt pits
Zeph 2:9
9 Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
Zephaniah 2:9 -
All animal sacrifices were required to be seasoned with
Lev 2:13; Ezra 6:9; Ezek 43:24; Mark 9:49
13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Leviticus 2:139 And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:
Ezra 6:924 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
Ezekiel 43:2449 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
Mark 9:49 -
Used in ratifying covenants
Num 18:19; 2 Chr 13:5
19 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
Numbers 18:195 Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
2 Chronicles 13:5 -
Elisha throws, into the pool of Jericho, to purify it
2 Kgs 2:20, 21
20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
2 Kings 2:2021 And he went forth unto 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.
2 Kings 2:21 - Figurative
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Of the saving efficacy of the ekklesia of Christ
Matt 5:13; Mark 9:49, 50; Luke 14:34
13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Matthew 5:1349 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
Mark 9:4950 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
Mark 9:5034 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Luke 14:34 -
Of wise behavior
Col 4:6
6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Colossians 4:6
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
