Ezra 4:14

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁴ and it is not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, we have therefore sent to inform the king,

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have maintenance, etc. Chal. are salted with the salt of thepalace. 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.
and it was.
Ezekiel 33:31; John 12:5; John 12:6; John 19:12-15