2 Re 2:20

La Bibbia di Giovanni Diodati

Allora egli disse: Recatemi una scodella nuova, e mettetevi dentro del sale. Ed essi gliela recarono.

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Egli disse: "Portatemi un piatto nuovo e mettetevi del sale". Essi glielo portarono.

Riveduta Bibbia
Ed egli disse: "Portatemi una scodella nuova, e mettetevi del sale". Quelli gliela portarono.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

salt therein: Judges 9:45, Ezekiel 47:11, Zephaniah 2:9

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 8:4 - all the great 2 Kings 20:7 - Take a lump Colossians 4:6 - seasoned

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said, bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein,.... One that had never been used, that it might not be thought that the virtue was owing to anything that had been, or was, put into it:

and they brought it to him; the pot with the salt in it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “new cruse” and the “salt” are evidently chosen from a regard to symbolizm. The foul stream represents sin, and to cleanse it emblems of purity must he taken. Hence, the clean “new” dish previously unused, and thus untainted; and the salt, a common Scriptural symbol of incorruption (see Leviticus 2:13; Ezekiel 43:24; Matthew 5:13, etc.).