20He said, |Bring me a new jar, and put salt in it.| They brought it to him.


In Context

17 When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, |Send them.| They sent therefore fifty men; and they searched for three days, but didn't find him.

18 They came back to him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, |Didn't I tell you, 'Don't go?'|

19 The men of the city said to Elisha, |Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land miscarries.|

20 He said, |Bring me a new jar, and put salt in it.| They brought it to him.

21 He went out to the spring of the waters, and threw salt into it, and said, |Thus says Yahweh, 'I have healed these waters. There shall not be from there any more death or miscarrying.'|

22 So the waters were healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.

2 Kings 2:20 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:20"Bring me a new bowl," he said, "and put salt in it." So they brought it to him.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:20And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they bring [it] to him.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:20And he said: Bring me a new vessel, and put salt into it. And when they had brought it,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:20And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:20And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt in it. And they brought it to him.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:20And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:20And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:20And he saith, 'Bring to me a new dish, and place there salt;' and they bring it unto him,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:20And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.