Dictionary of Bible Themes Dictionary of Bible Themes » 4000 Creation » 4300 Metals and minerals » 4357 salt A basic commodity, used for seasoning and preserving food in biblical times. The importance of salt in the sacrificial system Leviticus 2:13 See also Exodus 30:34-35 The addition of salt to incense was probably to make it burn more easily and quickly; Ezra 6:6-10; Ezra 7:21-23; Ezekiel 43:22-24 The covenant of salt Numbers 18:17-19 See also Leviticus 2:13; 2 Chronicles 13:4-5 Believers as the salt of the earth Matthew 5:13 This teaching reflects the importance of salt as a preservative and seasoning. See also Mark 9:50; Luke 14:34-35 Salt as a symbol of desolation Zephaniah 2:9 See also Deuteronomy 29:23-25; Job 39:5-6; Psalm 107:33-34; Jeremiah 17:5-8 Salt sown on arable land to render it worthless Jeremiah 48:8-9 See also Judges 9:42-45 Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt The Dead Sea an important source of salt Salt water James 3:9-12 See also Ezekiel 47:7-9 Salt herbs Practical uses of salt Salt used as a seasoning Salt rubbed on newborn infants Symbolic use of salt Figurative use of salt Mark 9:49 See also Ezra 4:14 The literal translation of the Hebrew phrase used here is “... we eat the salt of the palace ...”; Colossians 4:6 Salt in place-names The Dead Sea Joshua 12:3 The Dead Sea was known as “the Salt Sea” or “the Sea of the Arabah” in biblical times. See also Genesis 14:3; Numbers 34:3-4,10-12; Deuteronomy 3:16-17; Joshua 3:15-16; Joshua 15:2-3,5-6; Joshua 18:19 The Valley of Salt 2 Samuel 8:13 See also 2 Kings 14:7 pp 2 Chronicles 25:11; 1 Chronicles 18:12 The City of Salt See also
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