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Adamant (Diamond — Shamir) Symbolically. 



B.C. circum 595. When the Lord sent Ezekiel to reprove the 

 house of Israel of their sins he said, " They will not hearken 

 nnto thee " ; " Behold I have made thy face strong against their 

 faces, as adamant, harder than flint." (Ezek. iii, 9.) 



B.C. 518. Thus speaketh the Lord: "They refused to 

 hearken, yea they made their hearts as an adamant stone." 

 (Zech. vii, 12.) 



Flint (Khalomesh). 

 In the English translation the word flint occurs seven times 

 in the Old Testament, though in Is. v, 28, and Ezekiel iii, 9, it 

 is simply tsur, a rock, in the original, while in the other passages 

 it is khalomesh, which is conjectured to signify flint by K. 

 But the rendering of the S. is unquestionably the right one, 

 being in all cases general as irerpa, a rock, but never Trerpos, a 

 stone, " Who brought thee out of the rock of flint." " He 

 made him to suck honey out of the rock." [Hebrew, khalomesh.] 

 (Deut. viii, 15 ; xxxii, 13). " He putteth forth his hands upon 

 the rock" [Hebrew, flint.] (Job. xxviii, 9.) " Which turned 

 the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of 

 waters." (Ps. cxiv, 8.) " I have set my face like a flint." 

 (Is. 50, 7.) 



Salt (Melakh). 



B.C. circum 1917. In the days of Amraphel, King of Shinar, 

 Arioch, King of EUasar, Chedorlaomer, King of Elam, and 

 Tidal, king of nations, these made war with Bera, King of 

 Sodom, with Birsha, King of Gomorrah, Shinab, King of 

 Admah, and Shemeber, King of Zeboiim, and the King of 

 Bela, which is Zoar. " All these were joined together in the 

 vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea" (Gen. xiv, 3.) 



B.C. 1898. The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot 

 entered Zoar ; then the Lord destroyed the cities of Sodom and 

 Gomorrah and all the inhabitants of the plain. " But his wife 

 looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt." 

 [Was incrusted.] (Gen. xix, 26). 



B.C. circum 1490. " Every oblation of thy meat offering shalt 

 thou season with salt, neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the 

 covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering ; 

 with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt. 



B.C. circum 1040. " David gat him a name when he returned 

 from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being 18 ; 000men." 



