The Importance of Salt in the Old Testament

In the Old Testament, salt was connected with kind of agreements and making covenants. So probably what this is is some sort of idiom for, so when they say we eat the salt of the palace, it's their way of saying we have a come into an agreement with you. We've shared salt together in that sort of way. In other words, we might put it in today's today's dating. We're close. We're bound to you, we might say. And because of that, I'm really concerned. There, of course, they're portraying this, portraying themselves in this real positive light. Of course, this is self serving for them. Unfortunately, as