2 Kings 2:20

And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought [it] to him.

Ver. 20. And he said, Bring me, &c.] Jericho is now become a receptacle of prophets; it is reason that any place should fare the better for the presence of such.

A new cruse,] Whereby it might appear that the miracle was not wrought by virtue of anything that had been in it before.

And put salt therein.] Salt was more likely to make the waters brackish, than to sweeten them. Salsum in amarum was a strange way to heal. God oft worketh by contraries, that his power may the more appear.