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2 Kings 2:19
“The men of the city said to Elisha, "Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land miscarries.”
Verse in context — 2 Kings 2
When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, "Send them." They sent therefore fifty men; and they searched for three days, but didn't find him.
They came back to him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, "Didn't I tell you, 'Don't go?
The men of the city said to Elisha, "Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land miscarries.
He said, "Bring me a new jar, and put salt in it." They brought it to him.
He went out to the spring of the waters, and threw salt into it, and said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'I have healed these waters. There shall not be from there any more death or miscarrying.
About 2 Kings
The decline of both kingdoms, leading to exile in Assyria and Babylon.
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