40 Bible Verses about Salt
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Season every grain offering with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering. All of your offerings must have salt.
Jehovah said to Moses: Take one part fragrant spices and two kinds of gum resin and aromatic mollusk shells, and mix them with one part pure frankincense. Have a perfumer make it into fragrant incense, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.
Tattenai, ruler of the land across the river, and Shethar-bozenai and your people the Apharsachites across the river, keep far from that place: Let the work of this house of God continue. Let the ruler of the Jews and their responsible men construct this house of God in its place. Further, I give orders as to what you are to do for the responsible men of the Jews in connection with the building of this house of God: That from the king's wealth, that is, from the taxes got together in the land over the river, the money needed is to be given to these men readily, so that their work may not be stopped.read more.
When they need young bulls and sheep and lambs, for burned offerings to the God of heaven and grain, salt, wine, and oil, whatever the priests in Jerusalem say is necessary, is to be given to them day by day regularly: That they may make offerings of a sweet smell to the God of heaven, with prayers for the life of the king and of his sons.
And I, even I, Artaxerxes the king, now give orders to all keepers of the king's money across the river, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, may have need of from you, is to be done with all care, Up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred measures of grain, a hundred measures of wine, and a hundred measures of oil, and salt without measure. Whatever the God of heaven orders let it be done completely for the house of the God of heaven. Let there not be wrath against the kingdom of the king and his sons.
On the second day bring a male goat that has no defects as an offering for sin. Remove sin from the altar as you did with the young bull.' When you finish removing sin offer a young bull and a ram that have no defects. Offer them to Jehovah. The priests must throw salt on them and offer them as burnt offerings to Jehovah.
You must never buy back a firstborn bull, sheep, or goat. They are holy. Throw the blood from these animals against the altar. Burn the fat as an offering by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah. The meat is yours, like the breast and the right thigh that are presented. I have given you, your sons, and your daughters all the holy contributions which the Israelites offer to Jehovah. These contributions will be yours from generation to generation. It is an everlasting promise of salt in Jehovah's presence for you and your descendants.
The armies met in the hill country of Ephraim. King Abijah went up Mount Zemaraim and called out to Jeroboam and the Israelites: Listen to me! He shouted. Do you not know that Jehovah, the God of Israel, made an unbreakable covenant with David, giving him and his descendants kingship over Israel from generation to generation?
You are the salt of the earth. If its taste goes away, how will you restore it? It is good for nothing. All you can do is throw it on the ground and walk on it.
Salt is good. If it loses its saltiness how can you make it salty again? Have the salt or seasoning of friendship among yourselves, and live in peace with one another.
Salt is good. But if it loses its saltiness it cannot be made salty again. It is neither good for the soil nor for the manure pile. You throw it away. Listen if you have ears!
Just as I live, said Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, Moab will be like Sodom, and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah. They will be possessions of nettles and salt pits. They will be deserted forever! My people will plunder them and the remnant of my nation will take possession of their land.
All its land is brimstone and salt. It is a burning waste, unsown and unproductive. No grass grows on it. Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his wrath. All the nations will say: Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?' Then men will say: 'Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey? Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwelling?
He changes rivers into a desert, springs into thirsty ground, and fertile ground into a layer of salt because of the wickedness of the people living there.
This is what Jehovah says: Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from Jehovah. He will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when prosperity comes. He will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, a land of salt without inhabitant. Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah, whose refuge and security (confidence and hope) is Jehovah.read more.
For he will be like a tree planted by the water. It extends its roots by a stream and will not fear when the heat comes. Its leaves will be green. It will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield fruit.
Not a town will escape the destruction. Both valley and plain will be ruined. I Jehovah have spoken. Set up a tombstone for Moab. It will soon be destroyed. Its towns will be left in ruins, and no one will live there again.
The next day it was reported to Abimelech that the people of Shechem were planning to go out into the fields. He divided his men into three groups. They hid in the fields, waiting. When he saw the people come out of the city, he came out of hiding to kill them. Abimelech and his group rushed forward to guard the city gate. The other two companies attacked the people in the fields and killed all of them.read more.
The fighting lasted all day. Abimelech captured the city and killed its people. He tore down the city and covered the ground with salt.
The sun had just risen over the land as Lot came to Zoar. Jehovah made burning sulfur and fire rain out of the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah. He destroyed those cities, the whole Plain, all who lived in the cities, and whatever grew on the ground.read more.
Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt.
But the water in the swamps and marshes will not become fresh. It will remain salty.
We bless Jehovah, the Father, with it. (Psalm 34:1) Then we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God. Blessing and cursing come out of the same mouth! My brothers, these things should not be. Does the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?read more.
Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine produce figs? Neither can salt water yield sweet.
The man then led me back along the bank of the river. As I went back, I saw many trees on both sides of the river. He said: This water flows through the land to the east, down into the Jordan Valley, and into the Dead Sea. When the water flows into the Dead Sea, it will replace the salt water there with fresh water. Wherever the river flows, there will be many fish and animals. The river will make the water in the Dead Sea fresh. Wherever the river flows, it will bring life.
They pick mallow (salt herb) from the underbrush, and the roots of the broom plant are their food.
Is tasteless food eaten without salt? Is there flavor in the white root of the marshmallow plant (or the white of an egg)? I refuse to touch it! This repugnant food makes me ill.
On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.
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, 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.'read more.
That water has been pure ever since, just as Elisha said it would be.
Because we are responsible to the king, and it is not right for us to see the king's honor damaged, we have sent to give the king word of these things.
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and to the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdoth-pisgah:
The southern border will extend from the wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. It will begin on the east at the southern end of the Dead Sea. It will turn southward toward Akrabbim Pass and continue on through Zin as far south as Kadesh Barnea. It will turn northwest to Hazar Addar and on to Azmon,
I assigned the territory from Gilead to the Arnon River to the tribes of Reuben and Gad. The middle of the river was their southern boundary, and their northern boundary was the Jabbok River, part of which formed the Ammonite border. On the west their territory extended to the Jordan River, from Lake Galilee in the north down to the Dead Sea in the south and to the foot of (Mount) Pisgah on the east.
As they carried the ark into the Jordan and the feet of the priests dipped into the water, for Jordan is at food stage at the time of harvest. The waters stood and rose up upon a heap very far from the city Adam that is beside Zaretan. The waters that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off. The people passed over the Jericho.
The shore of the salt sea was their south border, from the bay that looks southward: From there it went out to the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side to Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and went around to Karka:
The border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.
David made a name for himself by killing eighteen thousand Edomites in the Dead Sea region as he returned to Jerusalem.
He put to the sword twelve thousand men of Edom in the Valley of Salt. He captured Sela in war, and named it Joktheel, as it is to this day.
Amaziah courageously led his troops. When he came to the Dead Sea region, he killed ten thousand men from Seir.
Zeruiah's son Abishai killed eighteen thousand Edomites in the Dead Sea region.
Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages.
From Thematic Bible
Righteous » Compared with » Salt
You are the salt of the earth. If its taste goes away, how will you restore it? It is good for nothing. All you can do is throw it on the ground and walk on it.
compared to Saints » Salt
You are the salt of the earth. If its taste goes away, how will you restore it? It is good for nothing. All you can do is throw it on the ground and walk on it.
Salt » Christians as sea » Sea
The waters stood and rose up upon a heap very far from the city Adam that is beside Zaretan. The waters that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off. The people passed over the Jericho.
On the west their territory extended to the Jordan River, from Lake Galilee in the north down to the Dead Sea in the south and to the foot of (Mount) Pisgah on the east.
It included the region east of the Jordan River as far south as the Dead Sea and east to the foot of Mount Pisgah.
It will happen! Living waters will go out from Jerusalem: half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea. It will be both in the summer and in the winter.
Salt » General references to
I have given you, your sons, and your daughters all the holy contributions which the Israelites offer to Jehovah. These contributions will be yours from generation to generation. It is an everlasting promise of salt in Jehovah's presence for you and your descendants.
Season every grain offering with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering. All of your offerings must have salt.
He ordered them: Put some salt in a new bowl and bring it to me. They brought it to him,
When they need young bulls and sheep and lambs, for burned offerings to the God of heaven and grain, salt, wine, and oil, whatever the priests in Jerusalem say is necessary, is to be given to them day by day regularly:
Salt » Salt sea
The waters stood and rose up upon a heap very far from the city Adam that is beside Zaretan. The waters that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off. The people passed over the Jericho.
On the west their territory extended to the Jordan River, from Lake Galilee in the north down to the Dead Sea in the south and to the foot of (Mount) Pisgah on the east.
And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and to the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdoth-pisgah:
then south along the Jordan River to the Dead Sea. These will be the four borders of your land.
Salt » The valley of, celebrated for victories
Zeruiah's son Abishai killed eighteen thousand Edomites in the Dead Sea region.
He put to the sword twelve thousand men of Edom in the Valley of Salt. He captured Sela in war, and named it Joktheel, as it is to this day.
David made a name for himself by killing eighteen thousand Edomites in the Dead Sea region as he returned to Jerusalem.
Salt » If salt loses its savor
Salt is good. But if it loses its saltiness it cannot be made salty again. It is neither good for the soil nor for the manure pile. You throw it away. Listen if you have ears!
You are the salt of the earth. If its taste goes away, how will you restore it? It is good for nothing. All you can do is throw it on the ground and walk on it.
For every one will be salted with fire. Salt is good. If it loses its saltiness how can you make it salty again? Have the salt or seasoning of friendship among yourselves, and live in peace with one another.
Salt » All animal sacrifices were required to be seasoned with
Season every grain offering with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering. All of your offerings must have salt.
Offer them to Jehovah. The priests must throw salt on them and offer them as burnt offerings to Jehovah.
When they need young bulls and sheep and lambs, for burned offerings to the God of heaven and grain, salt, wine, and oil, whatever the priests in Jerusalem say is necessary, is to be given to them day by day regularly:
Salt » Used for » Ratifying covenants
I have given you, your sons, and your daughters all the holy contributions which the Israelites offer to Jehovah. These contributions will be yours from generation to generation. It is an everlasting promise of salt in Jehovah's presence for you and your descendants.
Do you not know that Jehovah, the God of Israel, made an unbreakable covenant with David, giving him and his descendants kingship over Israel from generation to generation?
Salt » Often found » Near the dead sea
On the west their territory extended to the Jordan River, from Lake Galilee in the north down to the Dead Sea in the south and to the foot of (Mount) Pisgah on the east.
then south along the Jordan River to the Dead Sea. These will be the four borders of your land.
Salt » Figurative » Of the saving efficacy of the ekklesia of Christ
You are the salt of the earth. If its taste goes away, how will you restore it? It is good for nothing. All you can do is throw it on the ground and walk on it.
Salt is good. But if it loses its saltiness it cannot be made salty again.
For every one will be salted with fire. Salt is good. If it loses its saltiness how can you make it salty again? Have the salt or seasoning of friendship among yourselves, and live in peace with one another.
Salt » Used for » Seasoning sacrifices
Season every grain offering with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering. All of your offerings must have salt.
Offer them to Jehovah. The priests must throw salt on them and offer them as burnt offerings to Jehovah.
Salt » Places where it abounded barren and unfruitful
He will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when prosperity comes. He will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, a land of salt without inhabitant.
But the water in the swamps and marshes will not become fresh. It will remain salty.
Salt » Often found » In pits
Just as I live, said Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, Moab will be like Sodom, and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah. They will be possessions of nettles and salt pits. They will be deserted forever! My people will plunder them and the remnant of my nation will take possession of their land.
Jehovah delivered them into the hand of Israel, who killed them. They chased them unto great Zidon, and to Misrephoth-maim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they killed them. They did not leave any survivor remain.
Salt » Pillar of » Pillar of, lot's wife became
Salt » Illustrative » (without savor,) of graceless professors
You are the salt of the earth. If its taste goes away, how will you restore it? It is good for nothing. All you can do is throw it on the ground and walk on it.
Salt is good. If it loses its saltiness how can you make it salty again? Have the salt or seasoning of friendship among yourselves, and live in peace with one another.
Salt » Lost its savor when exposed to the air
You are the salt of the earth. If its taste goes away, how will you restore it? It is good for nothing. All you can do is throw it on the ground and walk on it.
Salt is good. If it loses its saltiness how can you make it salty again? Have the salt or seasoning of friendship among yourselves, and live in peace with one another.
Salt » Liberally afforded to the jews after the captivity
Up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred measures of grain, a hundred measures of wine, and a hundred measures of oil, and salt without measure.
When they need young bulls and sheep and lambs, for burned offerings to the God of heaven and grain, salt, wine, and oil, whatever the priests in Jerusalem say is necessary, is to be given to them day by day regularly:
Salt » Used in ratifying covenants
I have given you, your sons, and your daughters all the holy contributions which the Israelites offer to Jehovah. These contributions will be yours from generation to generation. It is an everlasting promise of salt in Jehovah's presence for you and your descendants.
Do you not know that Jehovah, the God of Israel, made an unbreakable covenant with David, giving him and his descendants kingship over Israel from generation to generation?
Salt » The valley of salt
He put to the sword twelve thousand men of Edom in the Valley of Salt. He captured Sela in war, and named it Joktheel, as it is to this day.
David made a name for himself by killing eighteen thousand Edomites in the Dead Sea region as he returned to Jerusalem.
Salt » Illustrative » Of wisdom in speech
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
Salt » Who is the salt of the earth
Seeing great masses of people, he went up to the mountain. When he was seated his disciples came to him. He opened his mouth and taught them: Blessed (Greek: makarios: happy, blessed) are those conscious of their spiritual need, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs. read more.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek (gentle) (mild) (humble), for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful and compassionate, for they will receive mercy and compassion. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God. Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when men revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake. Rejoice, and be filled with joy, for great is your reward in heaven. The prophets, who came before you, were also persecuted. You are the salt of the earth. If its taste goes away, how will you restore it? It is good for nothing. All you can do is throw it on the ground and walk on it.
Salt » Miracles connected with » Lot's wife turned into a pillar of
Salt » Illustrative » (pits of,) of desolation
Just as I live, said Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, Moab will be like Sodom, and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah. They will be possessions of nettles and salt pits. They will be deserted forever! My people will plunder them and the remnant of my nation will take possession of their land.
Salt » Miracles connected with » Elisha healed the bad water with
Salt » Illustrative » Of saints
You are the salt of the earth. If its taste goes away, how will you restore it? It is good for nothing. All you can do is throw it on the ground and walk on it.
Salt » Used for » Strengthening new-born infants
On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.
Salt » Elisha throws, into the pool of jericho, to purify it
He ordered them: Put some salt in a new bowl and bring it to me. They brought it to him, 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.'
Salt » Places sown with, to denote perpetual desolation
The fighting lasted all day. Abimelech captured the city and killed its people. He tore down the city and covered the ground with salt.
Salt » Often found » In springs
Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine produce figs? Neither can salt water yield sweet.
Salt » Illustrative » Of grace in the heart
Salt is good. If it loses its saltiness how can you make it salty again? Have the salt or seasoning of friendship among yourselves, and live in peace with one another.
Salt » Illustrative » Preparation » The wicked » For destruction
Salt » The city of salt
Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages.
Salt » Partaking of another's, a bond of friendship
Because we are responsible to the king, and it is not right for us to see the king's honor damaged, we have sent to give the king word of these things.
Salt » Characterized as good and useful
Salt is good. If it loses its saltiness how can you make it salty again? Have the salt or seasoning of friendship among yourselves, and live in peace with one another.
Salt » Lot's wife turned into a pillar of
Salt » Figurative » Of wise behavior
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
Salt » Used for » Seasoning food
Is tasteless food eaten without salt? Is there flavor in the white root of the marshmallow plant (or the white of an egg)?
Salt » Salt pits
Just as I live, said Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, Moab will be like Sodom, and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah. They will be possessions of nettles and salt pits. They will be deserted forever! My people will plunder them and the remnant of my nation will take possession of their land.
Symbols and similitudes » Salt
I have given you, your sons, and your daughters all the holy contributions which the Israelites offer to Jehovah. These contributions will be yours from generation to generation. It is an everlasting promise of salt in Jehovah's presence for you and your descendants.
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
Valleys » Mentioned in scripture » Salt
David made a name for himself by killing eighteen thousand Edomites in the Dead Sea region as he returned to Jerusalem.
Amaziah, the son of Jehoash, king of Judah, went on living for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.
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