Treasury of Scripture
holy water. That is, water from the layer; called holy, because separated from common to sacred uses. This is the most ancient account of the trial by ordeal, which obtained so generally among various nations; and it was calculated to fortify the minds of the Israelitish women in the hour of temptation and to render them watchful against all occasions of exciting suspicion in the breasts of their husbands.
Numbers 19:2-9 This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Israel...
Exodus 30:18 You shall also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash with...
of the dust
Job 2:12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle...
Jeremiah 17:13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth...
Lamentations 3:29 He puts his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
John 8:6,8 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground...