Thematic Bible: Waters of


Thematic Bible



Then they returned to Elisha. He waited at Jericho. He said to them: Did I tell you not to go? Men from Jericho went to Elisha and said: You may know that this is a fine city but the water is bad and causes miscarriages. He ordered them: Put some salt in a new bowl and bring it to me. They brought it to him, read more.
and he went to the spring, threw the salt in the water, and said: This is what Jehovah says: 'I make this water pure. It will not cause any more deaths or miscarriages.' That water has been pure ever since, just as Elisha said it would be.

The lot was for the children of Joseph. It fell from the Jordan by Jericho, to the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goes up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel.