2 Kings 2:21

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

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
forth	וַיֵּצֵא֙ vai.ye.Tze'	H3318	to go (causatively · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
spring	מוֹצָ֣א mo.Tza'	H4161	a going forth · noun, common masculine singular construct
waters	הַמַּ֔יִם ha.Ma.yim	H4325	water · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
cast	וַיַּשְׁלֶךְ vai.yash.lekh-	H7993	to throw out · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
salt	מֶ֑לַח Me.lach	H4417	properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute
said	וַיֹּ֜אמֶר vai.Yo.mer	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
saith	אָמַ֣ר 'a.Mar	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
LORD	יְהוָ֗ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
healed	רִפִּ֙אתִי֙ ri.Pi.ti	H7495	properly · verb, piel perfect, 1st person common singular
waters	לַמַּ֣יִם la.Ma.yim	H4325	water · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
death	מָ֥וֶת Ma.vet	H4194	death (natural or violent) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
barren	וּמְשַׁכָּֽלֶת u.me.sha.Ka.let	H7921	properly · conjunction + verb, piel active participle, feminine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Exodus 15:25-26 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he mad…
2 Kings 4:41 But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in…
Leviticus 2:13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lac…
2 Kings 6:6 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.
Revelation 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any…
Revelation 22:2-3 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yield…
Mark 9:50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
John 9:6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 2:19–end

Elisha had, in this respect, a double portion of Elijah's spirit, that he wrought more miracles than Elijah. Some reckon them in number just double. Two are recorded in these verses - a miracle of mercy to Jericho and a miracle of judgment to Bethel, Psa 101:1. I. Here is a blessing upon the waters of Jericho, which was effectual to heal them. Jericho was built in disobedience to a command, in defiance to a threatening, and at the expense of the lives of all the builder's children; yet, when it was built, it was not ordered to be demolished again, nor were God's prophets or people forbidden to dwell in it, but even within those walls that were built by iniquity we find a nursery of piety. Fo…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 2:20

ELISHA HEALS THE WATERS. (Kg2 2:19-25) Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein--The noxious qualities of the water could not be corrected by the infusion of salt--for, supposing the salt was possessed of such a property, a whole spring could not be purified by a dishful for a day, much less in all future time. The pouring in of the salt was a symbolic act with which Elisha accompanied the word of the Lord, by which the spring was healed [KEIL].

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 2:21

And cast the salt in there - He cast in the salt at the place where the waters sprang out of the earth. Jarchi well observes here, "Salt is a thing which corrupts water; therefore, it is evident that this was a true miracle." What Elisha did on this occasion, getting the new cruse and throwing in the salt, was only to make the miracle more conspicuous. If the salt could have had any natural tendency to render the water salubrious, it could have acted only for a short time, and only on that portion of the stream which now arose from the spring; and in a few moments its effects must have disappeared. But the miracle here was permanent: the death of men and cattle, which had been occasioned by…

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John Gill

Dictionary and topics

Elijah — Whose God is Jehovah. (1.) “The Tishbite,” the “Elias” of the New Testament, is suddenly introduced to our notice in 1 Kings 17:1 as delivering a message from the Lord to Ahab. There is mention made…
Elisha — God his salvation, the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah, who became the attendant and disciple of Elijah (1 Kings 19:16-19). His name first occurs in the command given to Elijah to anoint him as his…
Jehozabad — Jehovah-given. (1.) The son of Obed-edom (1 Chr. 26:4), one of the Levite porters. (2.) The son of Shomer, one of the two conspirators who put king Jehoash to death in Millo in Jerusalem (2 Kings…
Jericho — Place of fragrance, a fenced city in the midst of a vast grove of palm trees, in the plain of Jordan, over against the place where that river was crossed by the Israelites (Josh. 3:16). Its site was…
Elisha · .Purifies the waters of — .Purifies the waters of
Miracles Wrought Through Servants Of God · Elisha: Waters healed — Elisha: Waters healed
Salt · Elisha throws, into the pool of — Elisha throws, into the pool of
Water · Purified by Elisha — Purified by Elisha

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

2 Kings 2:21

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 2:19–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 2:20

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 2:21

John Gill

Dictionary and topics

2 Kings 2:21

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 2:19–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 2:20

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 2:21

John Gill

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Kings 2:16-22

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Kings 2:20-22

Rashi on 2 Kings 2:21