2 Kings 2:20

Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein The purity and freshness of the vessel were to typify the purification wrought upon the spring. Salt too is significant of preservation and purity. We are not however to think of this as the means whereby the healing was wrought, but only as an outward sign to point to the work which was supernaturally performed. The old word -cruse" = a cup, is akin to the more modern -cruet" and -crucible", and occurs before in the A.V. (1 Kings 14:3).