Judg 9:45, Psa 107:34, Jer 17:6, Eze 47:11, Zep 2:9, Luk 14:34-35 | 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!

Psalms 107:34

a fruitful.

Ge 13:10,13; 19:25; De 29:23-28; Isa 32:13-15

barrenness. Heb. saltness.

Ge 14:3; Eze 47:11

Jeremiah 17:6

like.

48:6; Job 8:11-13; 15:30-34; Ps 1:4; 92:7; 129:6-8; Isa 1:30

and shall.

2Ki 7:2,19,20; Job 20:17

a salt.

De 29:23; Jud 9:45; Eze 47:11; Zep 2:9

Ezekiel 47:11

the miry places.Those who reject, neglect, or pervert the gospel.

shall not be healed, they shall be. or, and that which shallnot be, shall be, etc.

Heb 6:4-8; 10:26-31; 2Pe 2:19-22; Re 21:8; 22:11

given.

De 29:23; Jud 9:45; Ps 107:34; Jer 17:6; Mr 9:48,49

Zephaniah 2:9

as I.

Nu 14:21; Isa 49:18; Jer 46:18; Ro 14:11

Surely.

Isa 11:14; 15:1-16:14; 25:10; Jer 48:1-49:7; Eze 25:1-26:21

Am 1:13-15; 2:1-3

as Gomorrah.

14; Ge 19:24,25; De 29:23; Isa 13:19,20; 34:9-13; Jer 49:18; 50:40

the residue.

7; 3:13; Joe 3:19,20; Mic 5:7,8

Luke 14:34-35

Salt.Common salt, or muriate of soda, consists of soda in combination with muriatic acid, and is for the most part an artificial preparation from sea water, though found in some countries in a solid and massive state. See particularly Le 2:13.

but.

Mt 5:13; Mr 9:49,50; Col 4:6; Heb 2:4-8

but.

Joh 15:6

He.

8:8; 9:44; Mt 11:15; 13:9; Re 2:7,11,17,29