2 Kings 2:21
and he goes out to the source of the waters, and casts salt there, and says, “Thus said YHWH: I have given healing to these waters; there is not anymore death and sterility there.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
20And he says, “Bring a new dish to me, and place salt there”; and they bring [it] to him,
22And the waters are healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha that he spoke.
Cross References
Exodus 15:25And he cries to YHWH, and YHWH shows him a tree, and he casts [it] into the waters, and the waters become sweet. He has made a statute for them there, and an ordinance, and He has tried them there,
2 Kings 4:41And he says, “Then bring a meal”; and he casts into the pot and says, “Pour out for the people, and they eat”; and there was no bad thing in the pot.
Psalms 107:33He makes rivers become a wilderness, || And fountains of waters become dry land.
Matthew 5:11Blessed are you whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for My sake—
John 9:6Saying these things, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind man, and said to him,
Revelation 21:4and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor will there be anymore pain, because the first things passed away.”
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 2:20-25
The Waters of Jericho Healed; the Death of the Mocking Children. ( b. c. 895.) 19 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. 20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him. 21 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… Read the whole commentary →