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Salting the earth, or sowing with salt, is the ritual of spreading salt on the sites of cities razed by conquerors. [1] [2] It originated as a curse on re-inhabitation in the ancient Near East and became a well-established folkloric motif in the Middle Ages. [3]
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: 14: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, 15: The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; The World English Bible translates the passage as: 14: that it might be fulfilled which was
The verse is paralleled in Mark 9:50; [5] Luke 14:34–35 also has a version of this text similar to the one in Mark. [6] There are a wide number of references to salt in the Old Testament. Leviticus 2:13, [7] Numbers 18:19, [8] and 2 Chronicles 13:5 [9] all present salt as a sign of God's covenant.
Allammelech – within the Tribe of Asher land, described in the Book of Joshua. [1] Allon Bachuth; Alqosh, in the Nineveh Plains, mentiomed in the Book of Nahum; Ammon – Canaanite state; Attalia – In Asia Minor; Antioch – In Asia Minor; Arabia – (in biblical times and until the 7th century AD Arabia was confined to the Arabian Peninsula)
Abraham and Lot Divided the Land (illustration from the 1897 Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us by Charles Foster) In Genesis 13:5-13, Abraham (then called Abram) and Lot separate, as a result of the quarrel among the shepherds. At the beginning of the story, Lot is described as a very wealthy man, like Abraham is after his return from Egypt.
The Promised Land (Hebrew: הארץ המובטחת, translit.: ha'aretz hamuvtakhat; Arabic: أرض الميعاد, translit.: ard al-mi'ad) is Middle Eastern land in the Levant that Abrahamic religions (which include Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and others) claim God promised and subsequently gave to Abraham (the legendary patriarch in Abrahamic religions) and several more times to his ...
Moses with Tablets of the Ten Commandments, painting by Rembrandt, 1659. Mount Horeb (/ ˈ h ɔːr ɛ b /; Hebrew: הַר חֹרֵב Har Ḥōrēḇ; Greek in the Septuagint: Χωρήβ, Chōrēb; Latin in the Vulgate: Horeb) is the mountain at which the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God, according to the Book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible.
The Olivet Discourse or Olivet prophecy is a biblical passage found in the Synoptic Gospels in Matthew 24 and 25, Mark 13, and Luke 21.It is also known as the Little Apocalypse because it includes the use of apocalyptic language, and it includes Jesus's warning to his followers that they will suffer tribulation and persecution before the ultimate triumph of the Kingdom of God. [1]