'Salt' in the Bible

But his wife looked back and became a pillar of salt.

Prepare expertly blended incense from these; it is to be seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

You are to season each of your grain offerings with salt; you must not omit from your grain offering the salt of the covenant with your God. You are to present salt with each of your offerings.

“I give to you and to your sons and daughters all the holy contributions that the Israelites present to the Lord as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt before the Lord for you as well as your offspring.”

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in His fierce anger.

Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En-gedi—six cities, with their villages.

So Abimelech fought against the city that entire day, captured it, and killed the people who were in it. Then he tore down the city and sowed it with salt.

David made a reputation for himself when he returned from striking down 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

He replied, “Bring me a new bowl and put salt in it.”After they had brought him one,

Elisha went out to the spring of water, threw salt in it, and said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘I have healed this water. No longer will death or unfruitfulness result from it.’”

Amaziah killed 10,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. He took Sela in battle and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this very day.

Abishai son of Zeruiah struck down 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

Don’t you know that the Lord God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt?

Amaziah strengthened his position and led his people to the Valley of Salt. He struck down 10,000 Seirites,

Whatever is needed—young bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, or wheat, salt, wine, and oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem—let it be given to them every day without fail,

up to 7,500 pounds of silver, 500 bushels of wheat, 550 gallons of wine, 550 gallons of oil, and salt without limit.

Is bland food eaten without salt?Is there flavor in an egg white?

He will be like a juniper in the Arabah;he cannot see when good comesbut dwells in the parched places in the wilderness,in a salt land where no one lives.

Make Moab a salt marsh,for she will run away;her towns will become a desolation,without inhabitant.

As for your birth, your umbilical cord wasn’t cut on the day you were born, and you weren’t washed clean with water. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.

You must present them before the Lord; the priests will throw salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the Lord.

Yet its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be left for salt.

Therefore, as I live—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts,the God of Israel—Moab will be like Sodomand the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place overgrown with weeds,a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland.The remnant of My people will plunder them;the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty? It’s no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled on by men.

Salt is good, but if the salt should lose its flavor, how can you make it salty? Have salt among yourselves and be at peace with one another.”

“Now, salt is good, but if salt should lose its taste, how will it be made salty?

Your speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person.