Judges 9:45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt. Torrey's Topical Textbook
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The First Chaldaean Empire and the Hyksos in Egypt ... soil impregnated with selenite and common salt, and irregularly ... The fields, which are regularly sown in the ... except at a few fixed and easily defended places. ... /.../chapter ithe first chaldaean empire.htm