Ezra 4:13-14
if this city Neh 5:4; Ps 52:2, Ps 119:69 pay Chal, give toll Ezra 7:24; Matt 9:9, Matt 17:25; Rom 13:6-7 revenue or, strength 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 Ezek 33:31; John 12:5-6, John 19:12-15
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