40 Bible Verses about Salt

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Leviticus 2:13

And every offering of thy gift, thou shalt salt with salt; and thou shalt not cause the salt of the covenant of thy God to cease from thy gift: upon every offering of thine thou shalt bring near salt

Exodus 30:34-35

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Take to thee aromatics, resin, and onycha, and galbanum; aromatics and pure frankincense: it shall be part for part And make it a perfume, an ointment, a work of the perfumer, salted, pure, holy.

Ezra 6:6-10

Now Tatnai prefect beyond the river, Shethar-Bozni, and their colleagues the Apharsachites that are beyond the river, be ye far off from thence: Leave to the works of this house of God: the prefect of the Jews and the old men of the Jews, they shall build this house of God upon its place. And from me a decree was set up for that which ye shall do with the old men of these Jews for building this house of God: and the king's riches, that of the tribute beyond the river, expenses shall be speedily given to these men, not to be made to cease.read more.
And whatever being necessary, and the young of cattle and rams and lambs, for burnt-offerings to the God of the heavens, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the saying of the priests that are in Jerusalem, to be given to them day by day, not resting: That therefore bringing near sweet odors to the God of the heavens, praying for the life of the king and his sons.

Ezra 7:21-23

And from me, I Arthasatha the king, a decree was set up to all the treasurers that are beyond the river, that all which Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of the heavens, shall ask of you, shall be done speedily' Even to a hundred talents of silver, and even to a hundred cors of wheat, and even to a hundred baths of wine, and even to a hundred baths of oil, and salt that was not written. All that from the decree of the God of the heavens shall be done diligently for the house of the God of the heavens: for why to be wrath upon the kingdom of the king and his sons?

Ezekiel 43:22-24

And in the second day thou shalt bring near a kid of the goats complete for sin; and cleanse ye the altar as they cleansed for the bullock. In thy finishing the cleansing thou shalt bring a bullock, son of a cow, blameless, and a blameless ram front the sheep; And bring them near before Jehovah, and the priests cast salt upon them, and they brought them up a burnt-offering to Jehovah.

Numbers 18:17-19

But the first-born of a cow, or the first-born of a sheep, or the first-born of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: their blood shalt thou pour out upon the altar, and their fat thou shalt burn a sacrifice for an odor of sweetness to Jehovah. And their flesh shall be to thee, as the breast of the lifting up, and as the right shoulder shall be to thee. All the offerings of the holy things which the sons of Israel shall lift up to Jehovah, I gave to thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters with thee, for a law forever: it a covenant of salt forever before Jehovah to thee, and to thy seed with thee.

2 Chronicles 13:4-5

And Abijah will rise up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and he will say, Hear me, Jeroboam, and all Israel; Is it not to you to know that Jehovah God of Israel gave the kingdom to David over Israel forever, to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

Matthew 5:13

Ye are the salt of the earth: and if the salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be salted? it is yet strong for nothing, except to be cast without, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Mark 9:50

Salt good: but if the salt be saltless, with what will ye prepare it? Have salt in yourselves, and live in peace one with another.

Luke 14:34-35

Salt good: but if salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be fitted? Neither for the land, nor is it fitted for the dunghill; they cast it without. He having ears to hear, let him hear.

Zephaniah 2:9

For this. I live, says Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, for Moab shall be as Sodom, and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, the possession of the thorn-bush and salt-pits, and a desolation even to forever: the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the rest of my nation shall inherit them.

Deuteronomy 29:23-25

Pitch and burning salt, all its land; it shall not be sown, and it shall not sprout, and no green herb shall come up upon it, as the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his wrath: And all the nations said, For what did Jehovah thus to this land? what the heat of this great anger? And they said, Because they left the covenant of Jehovah the God of their fathers, which he made with them; in his bringing them forth from the land of Egypt

Job 39:5-6

Who sent the wild ass free? and who opened the bonds of the wild ass? To whom did I set the desert his house, and the salt land his dwellings?

Psalm 107:33-34

He will set rivers to a desert, and the findings of waters to thirst; A land of fruit to saltness, for the evil of those dwelling in it

Jeremiah 17:5-8

Thus said Jehovah: Cursed the man who shall trust in man, and set flesh his arm, and shall turn away his heart from Jehovah. And he was as ruins in the sterile region, and he shall not see when good shall come; he inherited the arid places in the desert, a salt land, and it shall not be inhabited. Blessed the man who shall trust in Jehovah, and his trust was Jehovah.read more.
And he was as a tree planted by the waters, and it shall spread out its roots by the river, and it shall not see when heat shall come, and its leaf was green; and it shall not be afraid in the year of restraint, and it shall not withdraw from making fruit.

Jeremiah 48:8-9

And he laying waste shall come up on every city, and no city shall escape: and the valley was destroyed, and straightness was laid waste, as said Jehovah. Ye shall give a wing to Moab, that fleeing she shall go forth: for her cities shall be for a desolation, from none dwelling in them.

Judges 9:42-45

And it will be from the morrow, and the people will go forth to the field; and they will announce to Abimelech. And he will take the people and will divide them into three heads, and he will lie in wait in the field, and he will see, and behold, the people will come forth from the city, and he will rise up against them and smite them. And Abimelech and the heads which are with him will invade, and they will stand at the door of the gate of the city: and two heads will invade upon all which are in the field, and they will smite them.read more.
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he will take the city, and the people which in it he killed, and he will tear down the city, and will sow it with salt.

Genesis 19:23-26

The sun came forth upon the earth, and Lot came to Zoar. And Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah, sulphur and fire from Jehovah out of the heavens. And he will overturn these cities, and all the circuit, and all inhabiting the cities, and the sprouting of the earth.read more.
And his wife will look hack from behind him, and will become a pillar of salt

Ezekiel 47:11

Its marshes and its pools and they shall not be healed; they were given marshes to salt

James 3:9-12

With it we praise the God and Father; and with it we curse men, those made according to the similitude of God. Out of the same month comes forth blessing and cursing. There is no need, my brethren, for these things so to be. Much less from the same aperture does a fountain bubble out sweet and bitter?read more.
The fig tree, my brethren, cannot make olives, or the vine, figs: so no fountain can make salt and sweet water.

Ezekiel 47:7-9

In my turning back, and behold, upon the lip of the torrent very much wood from here and from them And he will say to me, These waters going forth to the circuit of the east, and they went down to Arabia and came into the sea: being brought forth to the sea and the waters were healed. And it was every living soul that shall creep, to all where the two torrents shall come there, shall live: and there was very many fish, because these waters came there: and they shall be healed and all lived where the torrent shall come there.

Job 30:4

Plucking off sea purslain upon the shrub, the root of broom their bread.

Job 6:6-7

Shall that unseasoned be eaten without salt? if there is taste in purslain slime? My soul refused to touch these as the loathsomeness of my bread.

Ezekiel 16:4

And thy nativity, in the day thou wert born thy navel was not cut, and thou wert not washed in water for my looking upon; and salting, thou welt not salted, and swathing, thou wert not swathed.

2 Kings 2:19-22

And the men of the city will say to Elisha, Behold the situation of the city good, as my lord sees: and the waters evil and the land barren. And he will say, Take to me a new dish, and put salt there. And they will take to him. And he will go forth to the going forth of the waters, and he will cast salt there, and be will say, Thus said Jehovah, I healed these waters; there shall be no more from thence death and barren.read more.
And the waters will be healed even to this day, wording to the word of Elisha which he spake.

Mark 9:49

For all shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

Ezra 4:14

Now for the cause that we were salted with the salt of the temple, and not being fit to us to see the king's nakedness, for this we sent and made known to the king;

Joshua 12:3

And the desert even to the sea of Cinneroth from the sunrising, and even to the sea of the desert, the salt sea, from the sunrising, the way of the house of Jeshimoth; and from the south under the ravines of Pisgah:

Genesis 14:3

All these joined together in the valley of Siddim; this is the sea of salt

Numbers 34:3-4

And to you was the south side from the desert of Zin upon the hands of Edom, and to you was the south boundary from the extremity of the salt sea eastward. And to you turned the boundary from the south to the ascending of Akrabbim, and it passed over Zin: and its going forth was from the south to Kadesh-Barnea, and it went forth to the Enclosure of the Threshing Floor, and it passed over to Azmon:

Deuteronomy 3:16-17

And to the Reubemtes and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the torrent Anion, the midst of the torrent and the boundary and even to the emptying of the torrent, the boundary of the sons of Ammon. And the sterile region, and Jordan, and the boundary from Chinnereth, and even to the sea of the desert, the salt sea under the ravines of Pisgah from the sunrising.

Joshua 3:15-16

And as they lifting up the ark come to Jordan, and the feet of the priests lifting up the ark were dipped in the extremity of the waters (and Jordan was filled up to all its banks all the days of harvest,) And the waters coming down from above will stand, they rose up one heap very far off in Adam, the city which is by the side of Zaretan; and coming down upon the sea of the desert, the salt sea, they ceased, they were cut off: and the people passed through over against Jericho.

Joshua 15:2-3

And the south bound shall be to them from the extremity of the salt sea from the tongue turning south. And it went out to the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and it passed over Zin and went up from the south to Kadesh-Barnea, and passed by Hezron and went up to Adar and encompassed Karkaa

Joshua 18:19

And the bound passed over to the shoulder of the Partridge House north, and its outgoings of the bound were at the tongue of the salt sea north, to the extremity of Jordan south: this the south bound.

2 Samuel 8:13

And David will make a name in his turning back from his smiting Aram in the valley of salt, eighteen thousand.

2 Kings 14:7

He struck Edom in the valley of salt, ten thousand; and he seized the rock in war, and he will call its name Joktheel, even to this day.

2 Chronicles 25:11

And Amaziah strengthened himself, and he will lead out his people, and go to the valley of salt, and he will strike the sons of Seir, ten thousand.

1 Chronicles 18:12

And Abishai son of Zeruiah struck Edom in the valley of salt, eighteen thousand.

Joshua 15:62

And Nibshan, and the City of Salt, and the Fountain of Engedi; six cities and their enclosures.

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Righteous » Compared with » Salt

Matthew 5:13

Ye are the salt of the earth: and if the salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be salted? it is yet strong for nothing, except to be cast without, and to be trodden under foot of men.

compared to Saints » Salt

Matthew 5:13

Ye are the salt of the earth: and if the salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be salted? it is yet strong for nothing, except to be cast without, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Salt » Christians as sea » Sea

Joshua 3:16

And the waters coming down from above will stand, they rose up one heap very far off in Adam, the city which is by the side of Zaretan; and coming down upon the sea of the desert, the salt sea, they ceased, they were cut off: and the people passed through over against Jericho.

Deuteronomy 3:17

And the sterile region, and Jordan, and the boundary from Chinnereth, and even to the sea of the desert, the salt sea under the ravines of Pisgah from the sunrising.

Deuteronomy 4:49

And all the desert the other side of Jordan, from the sun-rising and even to the sea, the desert under the springs of Pisgah.

Genesis 14:3

All these joined together in the valley of Siddim; this is the sea of salt

Zechariah 14:8

And it was in that day living waters went forth from Jerusalem: half of them to the former sea, and half of them to the last sea: in summer and in autumn shall it be.

Salt » General references to

Numbers 18:19

All the offerings of the holy things which the sons of Israel shall lift up to Jehovah, I gave to thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters with thee, for a law forever: it a covenant of salt forever before Jehovah to thee, and to thy seed with thee.

Leviticus 2:13

And every offering of thy gift, thou shalt salt with salt; and thou shalt not cause the salt of the covenant of thy God to cease from thy gift: upon every offering of thine thou shalt bring near salt

2 Kings 2:20

And he will say, Take to me a new dish, and put salt there. And they will take to him.

Genesis 19:26

And his wife will look hack from behind him, and will become a pillar of salt

Ezra 6:9

And whatever being necessary, and the young of cattle and rams and lambs, for burnt-offerings to the God of the heavens, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the saying of the priests that are in Jerusalem, to be given to them day by day, not resting:

Salt » Salt sea

Joshua 3:16

And the waters coming down from above will stand, they rose up one heap very far off in Adam, the city which is by the side of Zaretan; and coming down upon the sea of the desert, the salt sea, they ceased, they were cut off: and the people passed through over against Jericho.

Deuteronomy 3:17

And the sterile region, and Jordan, and the boundary from Chinnereth, and even to the sea of the desert, the salt sea under the ravines of Pisgah from the sunrising.

Joshua 12:3

And the desert even to the sea of Cinneroth from the sunrising, and even to the sea of the desert, the salt sea, from the sunrising, the way of the house of Jeshimoth; and from the south under the ravines of Pisgah:

Genesis 14:3

All these joined together in the valley of Siddim; this is the sea of salt

Numbers 34:12

And the boundary went down to Jordan, and its goings out were to the salt sea. This shall be to you the land according to the boundaries round about

More verses: Joshua 15:2

Salt » The valley of, celebrated for victories

1 Chronicles 18:12

And Abishai son of Zeruiah struck Edom in the valley of salt, eighteen thousand.

2 Kings 14:7

He struck Edom in the valley of salt, ten thousand; and he seized the rock in war, and he will call its name Joktheel, even to this day.

2 Samuel 8:13

And David will make a name in his turning back from his smiting Aram in the valley of salt, eighteen thousand.

Salt » If salt loses its savor

Luke 14:34-35

Salt good: but if salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be fitted? Neither for the land, nor is it fitted for the dunghill; they cast it without. He having ears to hear, let him hear.

Matthew 5:13

Ye are the salt of the earth: and if the salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be salted? it is yet strong for nothing, except to be cast without, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Mark 9:49-50

For all shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Salt good: but if the salt be saltless, with what will ye prepare it? Have salt in yourselves, and live in peace one with another.

Salt » All animal sacrifices were required to be seasoned with

Leviticus 2:13

And every offering of thy gift, thou shalt salt with salt; and thou shalt not cause the salt of the covenant of thy God to cease from thy gift: upon every offering of thine thou shalt bring near salt

Ezekiel 43:24

And bring them near before Jehovah, and the priests cast salt upon them, and they brought them up a burnt-offering to Jehovah.

Mark 9:49

For all shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

Ezra 6:9

And whatever being necessary, and the young of cattle and rams and lambs, for burnt-offerings to the God of the heavens, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the saying of the priests that are in Jerusalem, to be given to them day by day, not resting:

Salt » Used for » Ratifying covenants

Numbers 18:19

All the offerings of the holy things which the sons of Israel shall lift up to Jehovah, I gave to thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters with thee, for a law forever: it a covenant of salt forever before Jehovah to thee, and to thy seed with thee.

2 Chronicles 13:5

Is it not to you to know that Jehovah God of Israel gave the kingdom to David over Israel forever, to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

Salt » Often found » Near the dead sea

Deuteronomy 3:17

And the sterile region, and Jordan, and the boundary from Chinnereth, and even to the sea of the desert, the salt sea under the ravines of Pisgah from the sunrising.

Numbers 34:12

And the boundary went down to Jordan, and its goings out were to the salt sea. This shall be to you the land according to the boundaries round about

Salt » Figurative » Of the saving efficacy of the ekklesia of Christ

Matthew 5:13

Ye are the salt of the earth: and if the salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be salted? it is yet strong for nothing, except to be cast without, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Luke 14:34

Salt good: but if salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be fitted?

Mark 9:49-50

For all shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Salt good: but if the salt be saltless, with what will ye prepare it? Have salt in yourselves, and live in peace one with another.

Salt » Used for » Seasoning sacrifices

Leviticus 2:13

And every offering of thy gift, thou shalt salt with salt; and thou shalt not cause the salt of the covenant of thy God to cease from thy gift: upon every offering of thine thou shalt bring near salt

Ezekiel 43:24

And bring them near before Jehovah, and the priests cast salt upon them, and they brought them up a burnt-offering to Jehovah.

Salt » Places where it abounded barren and unfruitful

Jeremiah 17:6

And he was as ruins in the sterile region, and he shall not see when good shall come; he inherited the arid places in the desert, a salt land, and it shall not be inhabited.

Ezekiel 47:11

Its marshes and its pools and they shall not be healed; they were given marshes to salt

Salt » Often found » In pits

Zephaniah 2:9

For this. I live, says Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, for Moab shall be as Sodom, and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, the possession of the thorn-bush and salt-pits, and a desolation even to forever: the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the rest of my nation shall inherit them.

Joshua 11:8

And Jehovah will give them into the hand of Israel, and they will smite them, and they will pursue them, even to great Zidon, and even to Misrephoth-Maim, and even to the valley of Mizpeh from the sunrising; and he will smite them till none was left to them escaping.

Salt » Pillar of » Pillar of, lot's wife became

Genesis 19:26

And his wife will look hack from behind him, and will become a pillar of salt

Salt » Illustrative » (without savor,) of graceless professors

Matthew 5:13

Ye are the salt of the earth: and if the salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be salted? it is yet strong for nothing, except to be cast without, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Mark 9:50

Salt good: but if the salt be saltless, with what will ye prepare it? Have salt in yourselves, and live in peace one with another.

Salt » Lost its savor when exposed to the air

Matthew 5:13

Ye are the salt of the earth: and if the salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be salted? it is yet strong for nothing, except to be cast without, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Mark 9:50

Salt good: but if the salt be saltless, with what will ye prepare it? Have salt in yourselves, and live in peace one with another.

Salt » Liberally afforded to the jews after the captivity

Ezra 7:22

Even to a hundred talents of silver, and even to a hundred cors of wheat, and even to a hundred baths of wine, and even to a hundred baths of oil, and salt that was not written.

Ezra 6:9

And whatever being necessary, and the young of cattle and rams and lambs, for burnt-offerings to the God of the heavens, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the saying of the priests that are in Jerusalem, to be given to them day by day, not resting:

Salt » Used in ratifying covenants

Numbers 18:19

All the offerings of the holy things which the sons of Israel shall lift up to Jehovah, I gave to thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters with thee, for a law forever: it a covenant of salt forever before Jehovah to thee, and to thy seed with thee.

2 Chronicles 13:5

Is it not to you to know that Jehovah God of Israel gave the kingdom to David over Israel forever, to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

Salt » The valley of salt

2 Kings 14:7

He struck Edom in the valley of salt, ten thousand; and he seized the rock in war, and he will call its name Joktheel, even to this day.

2 Samuel 8:13

And David will make a name in his turning back from his smiting Aram in the valley of salt, eighteen thousand.

Salt » Illustrative » Of wisdom in speech

Salt » Who is the salt of the earth

Matthew 5:1-13

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain; and he having sat down, his disciples came to him. And having opened his mouth, he taught them, saying, Happy the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens. read more.
Happy they suffering: for they shall be comforted. Happy the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Happy they hungering and thirsting for Justice: for they shall be filled. Happy the compasaionate: for they shall be commiserated. Happy the pure in heart: tor they shall see God. Happy they making peace: for they shall be called sons of God. Happy they driven out for justice: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens. Happy are ye, when they shall upbraid you, and drive you out, and say every evil word against you, lying, for my sake. Rejoice and be transported with joy; for much your reward in the heavens for so they drove out the prophets which before you. Ye are the salt of the earth: and if the salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be salted? it is yet strong for nothing, except to be cast without, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Salt » Miracles connected with » Lot's wife turned into a pillar of

Genesis 19:26

And his wife will look hack from behind him, and will become a pillar of salt

Salt » Illustrative » (pits of,) of desolation

Zephaniah 2:9

For this. I live, says Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, for Moab shall be as Sodom, and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, the possession of the thorn-bush and salt-pits, and a desolation even to forever: the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the rest of my nation shall inherit them.

Salt » Miracles connected with » Elisha healed the bad water with

1 Kings 2:21

And she will say, Give Abishag the Shunamite to Adonijah thy brother for wife.

Salt » Illustrative » Of saints

Matthew 5:13

Ye are the salt of the earth: and if the salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be salted? it is yet strong for nothing, except to be cast without, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Salt » Used for » Strengthening new-born infants

Ezekiel 16:4

And thy nativity, in the day thou wert born thy navel was not cut, and thou wert not washed in water for my looking upon; and salting, thou welt not salted, and swathing, thou wert not swathed.

Salt » Elisha throws, into the pool of jericho, to purify it

2 Kings 2:20-21

And he will say, Take to me a new dish, and put salt there. And they will take to him. And he will go forth to the going forth of the waters, and he will cast salt there, and be will say, Thus said Jehovah, I healed these waters; there shall be no more from thence death and barren.

Salt » Places sown with, to denote perpetual desolation

Judges 9:45

And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he will take the city, and the people which in it he killed, and he will tear down the city, and will sow it with salt.

Salt » Often found » In springs

James 3:12

The fig tree, my brethren, cannot make olives, or the vine, figs: so no fountain can make salt and sweet water.

Salt » Illustrative » Of grace in the heart

Mark 9:50

Salt good: but if the salt be saltless, with what will ye prepare it? Have salt in yourselves, and live in peace one with another.

Salt » Illustrative » Preparation » The wicked » For destruction

Mark 9:49

For all shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

Salt » The city of salt

Joshua 15:62

And Nibshan, and the City of Salt, and the Fountain of Engedi; six cities and their enclosures.

Salt » Partaking of another's, a bond of friendship

Ezra 4:14

Now for the cause that we were salted with the salt of the temple, and not being fit to us to see the king's nakedness, for this we sent and made known to the king;

Salt » Characterized as good and useful

Mark 9:50

Salt good: but if the salt be saltless, with what will ye prepare it? Have salt in yourselves, and live in peace one with another.

Salt » Lot's wife turned into a pillar of

Genesis 19:26

And his wife will look hack from behind him, and will become a pillar of salt

Salt » Figurative » Of wise behavior

Salt » Used for » Seasoning food

Job 6:6

Shall that unseasoned be eaten without salt? if there is taste in purslain slime?

Salt » Salt pits

Zephaniah 2:9

For this. I live, says Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, for Moab shall be as Sodom, and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, the possession of the thorn-bush and salt-pits, and a desolation even to forever: the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the rest of my nation shall inherit them.

Symbols and similitudes » Salt

Numbers 18:19

All the offerings of the holy things which the sons of Israel shall lift up to Jehovah, I gave to thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters with thee, for a law forever: it a covenant of salt forever before Jehovah to thee, and to thy seed with thee.

Valleys » Mentioned in scripture » Salt

2 Samuel 8:13

And David will make a name in his turning back from his smiting Aram in the valley of salt, eighteen thousand.

2 Kings 14:17

And Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, will live after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, fifteen years.

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