Nave’s Topical Bible
Salt
22 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Lot's wife turned into a pillar of
- The city of Salt
- The valley of salt
- Salt Sea
Genesis 14:3; Numbers 34:12; Deuteronomy 3:17; Joshua 3:16; Joshua 12:3; Joshua 15:2
- Salt pits
- All animal sacrifices were required to be seasoned with
- Used in ratifying covenants
- Elisha throws, into the pool of Jericho, to purify it
- FIGURATIVE
- Of the saving efficacy of the ekklesia of Christ
- Of wise behavior
Bible verses about “Salt”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 19:26But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
- Joshua 15:62And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En–gedi; six cities with their villages.
- 2 Samuel 8:13And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.
- 2 Kings 14:7He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
- Genesis 14:3All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
- Numbers 34:12And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.
- Deuteronomy 3:17The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdoth–pisgah eastward.
- Joshua 3:16That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
- Joshua 12:3And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Beth–jeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdoth–pisgah:
- Joshua 15:2And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:
- Zephaniah 2:9Therefore 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, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
- Leviticus 2:13And 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 lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
- Ezra 6:9And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:
- Ezekiel 43:24And thou shalt offer them before the Lord, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the Lord.
- Mark 9:49For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
- Numbers 18:19All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the Lord, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
- 2 Chronicles 13:5Ought ye not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
- 2 Kings 2:20And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
- 2 Kings 2:21And 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.
- Matthew 5:13Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
- Mark 9:50Salt 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.
- Luke 14:34Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
- Colossians 4:6Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.