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That Sure Tastes Good!

Who satisfies your mouth with good things… Psalm 103:5a Psalm 37: 3 declares: “Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.” There, the

From Redemption to Royalty

In the first half of Psalm 103:4, God redeems us. Then, with only the separation of the pause of a comma, in the second half of the same verse, He crowns us. In other words,

Put Away Childish Things

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. (1 Corinthians 13:11) What

“Used to season food (Job 6:6), and mixed with the fodder of” “cattle (Isa. 30:24, “clean;” in marg. of R.V. “salted”). All” meat-offerings were seasoned with salt (Lev. 2:13). To eat salt “with one is to partake of his hospitality, to derive subsistence” from him; and hence he who did so was bound to look after his “host’s interests (Ezra 4:14, “We have maintenance from the” “king’s palace;” A.V. marg., “We are salted with the salt of the” “palace;” R.V., “We eat the salt of the palace”).” “A “covenant of salt” (Num. 18:19; 2 Chr. 13:5) was a covenant of perpetual obligation. New-born children were rubbed with salt “(Ezek. 16:4). Disciples are likened unto salt, with reference to” its cleansing and preserving uses (Matt. 5:13). When Abimelech “took the city of Shechem, he sowed the place with salt, that it” might always remain a barren soil (Judg. 9:45). Sir Lyon “Playfair argues, on scientific grounds, that under the generic” “name of “salt,” in certain passages, we are to understand” petroleum or its residue asphalt. Thus in Gen. 19:26 he would “read “pillar of asphalt;” and in Matt. 5:13, instead of “salt,” “petroleum, which loses its essence by exposure, as salt does” “not, and becomes asphalt, with which pavements were made.” “The Jebel Usdum, to the south of the Dead Sea, is a mountain of rock salt about 7 miles long and from 2 to 3 miles wide and some hundreds of feet high.

(Josh. 3:16). See DEAD SEA.

“One of the cities of Judah (Josh. 15:62), probably in the Valley” “of Salt, at the southern end of the Dead Sea.”

A place where it is said David smote the Syrians (2 Sam. 8:13). This valley (the’ Arabah) is between Judah and Edom on the south “of the Dead Sea. Hence some interpreters would insert the words,” “and he smote Edom, after the words, “Syrians” in the above” text. It is conjectured that while David was leading his army “against the Ammonites and Syrians, the Edomites invaded the” “south of Judah, and that David sent Joab or Abishai against” “them, who drove them back and finally subdued Edom. (Comp. title” to Ps. 60.) “Here also Amaziah “slew of Edom ten thousand men” (2 Kings 14:7; comp. 8: 20-22 and 2 Chr. 25:5-11).

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