* have maintenance, etc.  Chal. are salted with the salt of the
   palace.
   Salt is reckoned among the principal necessaries of life,
   (Ecclus. 39:26; or 31;) hence, by a very natural figure, salt
   is used for food or maintenance in general.  I am well
   informed, says Mr. Parkhurst, that it is a common expression
   of the natives in the East Indies, "I eat such a one's salt,"
   meaning, I am fed by him.  Salt was also, as it still is,
   among eastern nations, a symbol of friendship and hospitality;
   and hence, to eat a man's salt, is to be bound to him by the
   ties of friendship.

 * and it was.
  Eze 33:31  Joh 12:5,6  19:12-15