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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.

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Intertextuality Pair

Psalms 60:2 → 2 Samuel 8:12-13

Echo

Later text

Psalms 60:2BSB

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

Earlier text

2 Samuel 8:12-13BSB

from Edom and Moab, from the Ammonites and Philistines and Amalekites, and from the spoil of Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah. And David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

Significance

Psalm 60's superscription references David's wars with Aram and the Edomite campaign in the Valley of Salt. 2 Samuel 8:12-13 records the spoils "from Edom and Moab" that David dedicated to the LORD, and that David "made a name for himself when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt." The psalm provides the liturgical-poetic counterpart to 2 Samuel's historical chronicle, revealing that David's military campaigns were accompanied by theological reflection — the psalm's lament acknowledges that even victories involved divine chastening ("You have shaken the land," v. 2) before God granted triumph. The differing troop counts—18,000 in Samuel's record versus 12,000 in the psalm's superscription—likely reflect separate tallies from distinct engagements within the same broader campaign rather than a contradiction.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — 2 Samuel 8:12-13 chronicles the Valley of Salt victory and dedicated spoils that Psalm 60's superscription presupposes, while the psalm itself laments the shaking that preceded triumph ("You have shaken the land"), liturgy and chronicle together advancing the Davidic-kingdom stage of redemptive history whose victories prefigure the Son of David's.

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