2 Kings 2:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁰ And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ He said, Bring me a new bowl and put salt [the symbol of God's purifying power] in it. And they brought it to him.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.

Common English Bible

²⁰ He said, “Bring me a new bowl, and put some salt in it.” They did so.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ And so he said, "Bring a new vessel to me, and place salt in it." And when they had brought it,

2 Kings 2:20 Cross References

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them.

Judges 9:45

And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

Ezekiel 47:11

But the miry places thereof, and the marishes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

2 Kings 2:19

And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, we pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the land miscarrieth.

2 Kings 2:21

And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or miscarrying.