Text: Psalms 60:2
OT Text Referred to: 1 Kings 11:15-16
Subject: Valley of Salt victory (B)
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None
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 up to bury the slain and struck down every male in Edom. For six months Joab remained there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom." The psalm's lament — "You have rejected us, O God; You have broken through our defenses" — 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.
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Text: 1 Kings 11:15
OT Text Referred to: Psalm 60
Subject: striking down an enemy in the valley of salt
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: In 1 Kings 11:15, the narrator recalls that Joab, David's army commander, "struck down every male in Edom" during an earlier campaign. Psalm 60's superscription places it in this same military context: "when Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt." The psalm's lament over military setback ("You have rejected us, O God, and burst upon us") and its concluding confidence that "through God we will do valiantly" provide the theological framework for interpreting the Edomite conquest that 1 Kings 11:15 narrates as historical fact. The connection between prose history and liturgical response shows how Israel processed its warfare through worship.
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Text: 1 Kings 11:15-16
OT Text Referred to: Psalm 60
Subject: Joab's Edomite campaign and Psalm 60's war setting
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: In 1 Kings 11:15-16, the narrator recounts that Joab remained in Edom six months "until he had struck down every male in Edom," while burying the Israelite dead. Psalm 60's superscription sets the psalm during this same campaign — "when Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt." The historical account in Kings provides the narrative facts, while the psalm reveals the theological experience: initial defeat ("You have rejected us... broken through our defenses"), prayer for divine aid, and confidence in ultimate victory. Together, the texts show that Israel's military history was inseparable from its life of prayer and lament.