2 Samuel 8:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

David won a name for himself. When he returned, he killed eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

2 Samuel 7:9

and I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.

1 Kings 11:15

For when David was destroying Edom and Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the dead, he killed every male in Edom

2 Kings 14:7

He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm; he called it Jokthe-el, which is its name to this day.

1 Chronicles 18:12

Abishai son of Zeruiah killed eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

2 Chronicles 25:11

Amaziah strengthened himself and led out his people; he went to the Valley of Salt and struck down ten thousand men of Seir.

Psalm 60:1

O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses; you have been angry; now restore us!