Ezra 4:11-16

4:12

rebellious <04779> [rebellious.]

odious city <07149 0873> [bad city.]

<03635> [set up. or, finished.]

repairing <02338> [joined. Chal. sewed together.]

4:13

if this city <01791 07149 02006> [if this city.]

paid <05415> [pay. Chal. give. toll.]

treasury <0674> [revenue. or, strength.]

4:14

that ..................... sustain <04415 01768> [have maintenance, etc. Chal. are salted with the salt of the palace.]

Salt is reckoned among the principal necessaries of life, (Ecclus. 39:26 or 31;) hence, by a very natural figure, salt is used for food or maintenance in general. I am well informed, says Mr. Parkhurst, that it is a common expression of the natives in the East Indies, "I eat such a one's salt," meaning, I am fed by him. Salt was also, as it still is, among eastern nations, a symbol of friendship and hospitality; and hence, to eat a man's salt, is to be bound to him by the ties of friendship.

not <03809> [and it was.]

4:15

this city ........................ this city <07149 01791> [this city.]

producing <05648> [moved. Chal. made. within the same. Chal. in the midst thereof. for which.]

4:16

will <0383> [thou shalt have.]