Lexicon :: Strong's H4417 - melaḥ

All of these came as allies to the Siddim Valley (that is, the Dead Sea).

But Lot’s wife looked back and became a pillar of salt.

“You are to season each of your grain offerings with salt; you must not omit from your grain offering the salt of the covenant with your God. You are to present salt with each of your offerings.

“I give to you and to your sons and daughters all the holy contributions that the Israelites present to the LORD as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt before the LORD for you as well as your offspring.”

“Your southern side will be from the Wilderness of Zin along the boundary of Edom. Your southern border on the east will begin at the east end of the Dead Sea.

“Then the border will go down to the Jordan and end at the Dead Sea. This will be your land defined by its borders on all sides.”

“The Arabah and Jordan are also borders from Chinnereth[fn] as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Dead Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

“All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD demolished in his fierce anger.

and the water flowing downstream stood still, rising up in a mass that extended as far as[fn] Adam, a city next to Zarethan. The water flowing downstream into the Sea of the Arabah ​— ​the Dead Sea ​— ​was completely cut off, and the people crossed opposite Jericho.

the Arabah east of the Sea of Chinnereth[fn] to the Sea of Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea), eastward through Beth-jeshimoth and southward[fn] below the slopes of Pisgah.

Their southern border began at the tip of the Dead Sea on the south bay[fn]

Now the eastern border was along the Dead Sea to the mouth of the Jordan.

The border on the north side was from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan.

The border continued to the north slope of Beth-hoglah and ended at the northern bay of the Dead Sea, at the southern end of the Jordan. This was the southern border.

So Abimelech fought against the city that entire day, captured it, and killed the people who were in it. Then he tore down the city and sowed it with salt.

David made a reputation for himself when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand Edomites[fn] in Salt Valley.[fn]

He replied, “Bring me a new bowl and put salt in it.”

After they had brought him one,

Amaziah killed ten thousand Edomites in Salt Valley. He took Sela in battle and called it Joktheel, which is still its name today.

Abishai son of Zeruiah struck down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Salt Valley.

“Don’t you know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt?

Amaziah strengthened his position and led his people to the Salt Valley. He struck down ten thousand Seirites,[fn]

Is bland food eaten without salt?

Is there flavor in an egg white?[fn]

God, you have rejected us;

you have broken us down;

you have been angry. Restore us![fn]

“You are to present them before the LORD; the priests will throw salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the LORD.

“Yet its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be left for salt.

Therefore, as I live —

this is the declaration of the LORD of Armies,

the God of Israel —

Moab will be like Sodom

and the Ammonites like Gomorrah:

a place overgrown with weeds,

a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland.

The remnant of my people will plunder them;

the remainder of my nation will dispossess them.