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     * have maintenance, etc.  Chal. are salted with the salt of the
       palace.
       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.
     # Eze 33:31; Joh 12:5,6; 19:12-15|