Treasury Of Scripture Knowledge - Ezra 4:14 - 4:14

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Treasury Of Scripture Knowledge - Ezra 4:14 - 4:14


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have maintenance: etc. Chal, are salted with the salt of the palace, Salt is reckoned among the principal necessaries of life (Ecclus. 39:26 or verse 31); hence, by a very natural figure, salt is used for food or maintenance in general. I am well informed, says Mr. Parkhurst, that it is a common expression of the natives in the East Indies, "I eat such a one's salt," meaning, I am fed by him. Salt was also, as it still is, among eastern nations, a symbol of friendship and hospitality; and hence, to eat a man's salt, is to be bound to him by the ties of friendship.

and it was: Eze 33:31; Joh 12:5-6, Joh 19:12-15