Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
⛓ Read 2 Chronicles 13 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The Davidic kingship granted 'by a covenant of salt' extends the salt-as-perpetual-covenant idiom that gives Jesus' saltlessness saying its bite. Faint and contested, but adds recurrence to the covenant-of-salt motif across the canon.
Low confidenceThe kingship given to David by 'a covenant of salt' reinforces salt as a symbol of permanent covenant, supporting Jesus' exhortation to keep salt and peace. The contact is general and reinforcing. It corroborates the covenant-of-salt background.
Low confidenceDavidic kingship given by a 'covenant of salt'; reinforces salt's covenantal connotation.
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