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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jdg 9:45 — And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that [was] therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
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he took
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Jdg 9:20 |
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beat
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Deu 29:23; 1Ki 12:25; 2Ki 3:25; Psa 107:34; *marg:; Eze 47:11; Zep 2:9; Jam 2:13 |
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sowed
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Salt in small quantities renders land extremely fertile; but too much of it destroys vegetation. Every place, says Pliny, in which salt is found is barren, and produces nothing. Hence the sowing of a place with salt was a custom in different nations to express permanent desolation. Sigonius observes, that when Milan was taken, A..D. 1162, the walls were razed, and it was sown with salt. And Brantome informs us, that it was an ancient custom in France, to sow the house of a man with salt, who had been declared a traitor to his king. Charles IX., king of France, the most base and perfidious of human beings, caused the house of Admiral Coligni (whom he and the Duke of Guise caused to be murdered, with thousands more of Protestants, on the eve of St. Bartholomew, 1572,) to be sown with salt! |
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Jdg 9:20 |
But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech. |
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Deu 29:23 |
[And that] the whole land thereof [is] brimstone, and salt, [and] burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: |
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1Ki 12:25 |
Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel. |
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2Ki 3:25 |
And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about [it], and smote it. |
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Psa 107:34 |
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. |
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Eze 47:11 |
But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. |
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Zep 2:9 |
Therefore [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. |
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Jam 2:13 |
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Judges 9:45," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Jdg/9/45.html>.
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