* he took.
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 * beat.
  De 29:23  1Ki 12:25  2Ki 3:25  Ps 107:34  *marg: 
  Eze 47:11  Zep 2:9  Jas 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!