King James Version
2 Kings 2:20 in the King James Version says “And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.”
2 Kings 2:20 · KJV
And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren. barren: Heb. causing to miscarry
And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
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.
So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“and put”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“salt”
H4417properly, powder, i.e., (specifically) salt (as easily pulverized and dissolved)
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