Judg 9:45, 2Sa 8:2, 2Ki 3:19, Isa 37:26-27 | TSK | STEP | he took. beat. sowed.Salt in small quantities renders land extremely fertile; but too much of it destroys vegetation. Every place, says Pliny, in which salt is found is barren, and produces nothing. Hence the sowing of a place with salt was a custom in different nations to express permanent desolation. Sigonius observes, that when Milan was taken, A.D. 1162, the walls were razed, and it was sown with salt. And Brantome informs us, that it was an ancient custom in France, to sow the house of a man with salt, who had been declared a traitor to his king. Charles IX., king of France, the most base and perfidious of human beings, caused the house of Admiral Coligni (whom he and the Duke of Guise caused to be murdered, with thousands more of Protestants, on the eve of St. Bartholomew, 1572,) to be sown with salt!

Judges 9:45

he took.

beat.

De 29:23; 1Ki 12:25; 2Ki 3:25; Ps 107:34; *marg:

sowed.Salt in small quantities renders land extremely fertile; but too much of it destroys vegetation. Every place, says Pliny, in which salt is found is barren, and produces nothing. Hence the sowing of a place with salt was a custom in different nations to express permanent desolation. Sigonius observes, that when Milan was taken, A.D. 1162, the walls were razed, and it was sown with salt. And Brantome informs us, that it was an ancient custom in France, to sow the house of a man with salt, who had been declared a traitor to his king. Charles IX., king of France, the most base and perfidious of human beings, caused the house of Admiral Coligni (whom he and the Duke of Guise caused to be murdered, with thousands more of Protestants, on the eve of St. Bartholomew, 1572,) to be sown with salt!

2 Samuel 8:2

he smote.

Nu 24:17; Jud 3:29,30; 1Sa 14:47; Ps 60:8; 83:6; 108:9

measured.

12:31

And so.

6,12-14; 2Ki 1:1; 3:4-27; 1Ch 18:2

brought gifts.

1Sa 10:27; 2Ch 26:8; Ps 72:10,11; Isa 36:16

2 Kings 3:19

And ye.

13:17; Nu 24:17; Jud 6:16; 1Sa 15:3; 23:2

fell.

De 20:19,20

mar. Heb. grieve.

Isaiah 37:26-27

long ago, etc. or, how I have made it long ago, and formedit of ancient times? Should I now bring it to be laid waste, and defenced cities to be ruinous heaps?.

how I.

10:5,6,15; 45:7; 46:10,11; Ge 50:20; Ps 17:13; 76:10; Am 3:6

Ac 2:23; 4:27,28; 1Pe 2:8; Jude 1:4

their inhabitants.

19:16; Nu 14:9; 2Ki 19:26; Ps 127:1,2; Jer 5:10; 37:10

of small power. Heb. short of hand. as the grass of.

40:6-8; Ps 37:2; 90:5,6; 92:7; 103:15; 129:6; Jas 1:10,11; 1Pe 1:24