2 Kings 2:21 (WEB)
He went out to the spring of the waters, and threw salt into it, and said, “The LORD says, ‘I have healed these waters. There shall not be from there any more death or barren wasteland.’”
Fathers and councils · 2
Jerome
“She saw also that fountain of the Law most bitter and barren which the true Elisha healed by his wisdom changing it into a well sweet and fertilising.” — editor's note: 2 Kings ii. 19–22, type and antitype are, as often, here confounded.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For it is only one who is undermost that can be trodden under foot; but he is not undermost, who, however many things he may suffer in his body on the earth, yet has his heart fixed in heaven.” — editor's note: Others follow Augustin in regarding the connection of this verse and the next with the preceding one as very close. All the more must they refuse to yield to…
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Cross-references · 8
Cited together with
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.6.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.6.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.6.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.6.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.6.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.6.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.6.
Parallel passages
Joshua 15:9 and 2 Kings 2:21 share the same wording (10 words).