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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
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Intertextuality Pair

Psalms 60:2 → 1 Kings 11:15-16

Echo

Later text

Psalms 60:2BSB

You have shaken the land and torn it open. Heal its fractures, for it is quaking.

Earlier text

1 Kings 11:15-16BSB

Earlier, when David was in Edom, Joab the commander of the army had gone to bury the dead and had struck down every male in Edom. Joab and all Israel had stayed there six months, until he had killed every male in Edom.

Significance

The superscription of Psalm 60 places it "when he fought Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt." 1 Kings 11:15-16 provides the historical context: "Joab the commander of the army had gone to bury the dead and had struck down every male in Edom. Joab and all Israel had stayed there six months, until he had killed every male in Edom." The psalm's lament — "You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us" — reflects a moment of military crisis during the larger Edomite campaign that 1 Kings 11 narrates. The psalm preserves the emotional experience of a setback within what the historical narrative remembers as an ultimate victory.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the superscription ties Psalm 60 to the Edomite campaign whose severity 1 Kings 11:15-16 records (Joab's six months until every male in Edom was killed), the psalm supplying the liturgical lament inside that kingdom-stage warfare — honest crisis within advancing victory, a pattern of the kingdom that comes through affliction and is perfected in the afflicted King.