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2 Kings 2:19-21

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Elisha Demonstrates His Authority

2:19 The men of the city said to Elisha, “Look, the city has a good location, as our 1  master can see. But the water is bad and the land doesn’t produce crops.” 2  2:20 Elisha 3  said, “Get me a new jar and put some salt in it.” So they got it. 2:21 He went out to the spring and threw the salt in. Then he said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘I have purified 4  this water. It will no longer cause death or fail to produce crops.” 5 

1 tn Heb “my.”

2 tn Heb “miscarries” or “is barren.”

3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

4 tn Or “healed.”

5 tn Heb “there will no longer be from there death and miscarriage [or, ‘barrenness’].”



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