Judges 9:45

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45 G2532 And G* Abimelech G4170 made war G1722 against G3588 the G4172 city G3650 [²entire G3588 G2250 ³day G1565 ¹that]. G2532 And G2638 they overtook G3588 the G4172 city, G2532 and G3588 the G2992 people G3588 G1722 in G1473 it G615 they killed; G2532 and G2507 he demolished G3588 the G4172 city G2532 and G4687 sowed G1473 it G217 with salt.

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he took.
Judges 9:20
beat.
Deuteronomy 29:23; 1 Kings 12:25; 2 Kings 3:25; Psalms 107:34
Ezekiel 47:11; Zephaniah 2:9; James 2:13
sowed.Salt in small quantities renders land extremely fertile; but too much of it destroys vegetation. Every place, says Pliny, in which salt is found is barren, and produces nothing. Hence the sowing of a place with salt was a custom in different nations to express permanent desolation. Sigonius observes, that when Milan was taken, A.D. 1162, the walls were razed, and it was sown with salt. And Brantome informs us, that it was an ancient custom in France, to sow the house of a man with salt, who had been declared a traitor to his king. Charles IX., king of France, the most base and perfidious of human beings, caused the house of Admiral Coligni (whom he and the Duke of Guise caused to be murdered, with thousands more of Protestants, on the eve of St. Bartholomew, 1572,) to be sown with salt!