And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.
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Gill's Exposition
And he said, bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein,.... One that had never been used, that it might not be thought that the virtue was owing to anything that had been, or was, put into it:
and…
Barnes' Notes
The water is naught - i. e. “bad.” And the ground barren - Translate “and the land apt to miscarry.” The stream was thought to be the cause of untimely births, abortions, and the like, among the…
Adam Clarke
The water is naught, and the ground barren - The barrenness of the ground was the effect of the badness of the water.
Elisha had, in this respect, a double portion of Elijah's spirit, that he wrought more miracles than Elijah. Some reckon them in number just double. Two are recorded in these verses - a miracle of…
Cambridge Bible
Elisha heals the noxious water at Jericho (Not in Chronicles)
19. And the men of the city These are the ordinary inhabitants. From the sons of the prophets they would gather that Elisha was now gifted…
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