Covenant of Salt
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Covenant of Salt

COVENANT OF SALT

solt (berith melach; halas, classical Greek hals): As salt was regarded as a necessary ingredient of the daily food, and so of all sacrifices offered to Yahweh (Leviticus 2:13), it became an easy step to the very close connection between salt and covenant-making. When men ate together they became friends. Compare the Arabic expression, "There is salt between us"; "He has eaten of my salt," which means partaking of hospitality which cemented friendship; compare "eat the salt of the palace" (Ezra 4:14). Covenants were generally confirmed by sacrificial meals and salt was always present. Since, too, salt is a preservative, it would easily become symbolic of an enduring covenant. So offerings to Yahweh were to be by a statute forever, "a covenant of salt for ever before Yahweh" (Numbers 18:19). David received his kingdom forever from Yahweh by a "covenant of salt" (2 Chronicles 13:5). In the light of these conceptions the remark of our Lord becomes the more significant: "Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another" (Mark 9:50).

Edward Bagby Pollard

Subtopics

Covenant

Covenant in Moab

Covenant of Circumcision

Covenant of God With Men: Binding

Covenant of God With Men: Broken by the Jews

Covenant of God With Men: Confirmed With an Oath

Covenant of God With Men: Everlasting

Covenant of God With Men: God Faithful To

Covenant of God With Men: Punishments for Breaking of

Covenant of God With Men: Repudiated by God on Account of Jews' Idolatry

Covenant of Man With God: Absalom

Covenant of Man With God: Asa

Covenant of Man With God: Israelites

Covenant of Man With God: Jacob

Covenant of Man With God: Jehoiada and Joash

Covenant of Man With God: Joshua

Covenant of Man With God: Josiah

Covenant of Man With God: Nehemiah

Covenant of Men With Men by a Monument

Covenant of Men With Men by Giving Presents

Covenant of Men With Men by Giving the Hand

Covenant of Men With Men by Making a Feast

Covenant of Men With Men by offering a Sacrifice

Covenant of Men With Men by Salting

Covenant of Men With Men: Breach of, Punished

Covenant of Men With Men: Loosing the Shoe

Covenant of Men With Men: Written and Sealed

Covenant of Salt

Covenant of the Levites

Covenant of the Sabbath

Covenant of the Ten Commandments

Covenant with Adam

Covenant with David

Covenant with David and his House

Covenant with his People

Covenant with Isaac

Covenant with Israel, at Horeb

Covenant with Phinehas

Covenant with the Israelites to Deliver Them from Egypt

Covenant: Abimelech and Isaac

Covenant: Abraham

Covenant: Abraham and Abimelech

Covenant: Ahab With Benhadad

Covenant: Binding

Covenant: Binding, not Only on Those Who Make Them, But on Those Who are Represented

Covenant: Blood of

Covenant: Book of

Covenant: Jacob

Covenant: Jacob and Laban

Covenant: Jews With Each Other, to Serve God

Covenant: Jonathan and David

Covenant: King Zedekiah and his Subjects

Covenant: Noah

Covenant: Sacred

Covenant: Subjects With Sovereign

Covenant: The Mosaic Law Called a Covenant

Covenant: The Second Covenant

Covenant: To be Confirmed

The Covenant is a Covenant of Peace

The Covenant is Everlasting

The Covenant is Unalterable

The Covenant: All Saints Interested In

The Covenant: Be Mindful of

The Covenant: Blessings Connected With

The Covenant: Caution Against Forgetting

The Covenant: Christ, the Mediator of

The Covenant: Christ, the Messenger of

The Covenant: Christ, the Substance of

The Covenant: Confirmed in Christ

The Covenant: Fulfilled in Christ

The Covenant: God is Ever Mindful of

The Covenant: God is Faithful To

The Covenant: Made With: Abraham

The Covenant: Made With: David

The Covenant: Made With: Isaac

The Covenant: Made With: Israel

The Covenant: Made With: Jacob

The Covenant: Plead, in Prayer

The Covenant: Punishment for Despising

The Covenant: Ratified by the Blood of Christ

The Covenant: Renewed Under the Gospel

The Covenant: The Wicked Have No Interest In

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