Psalm 60
O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again. Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the branches thereof; for it shaketh.-Psalm 60:1-2Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment. Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah. That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me. God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver; Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.-Psalm 60:6-8
Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom? Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies? Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.-Psalm 60:9-12/the complete psalm***David was born into the tribe of Judah, the family of Israelites descended from Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob (Israel) and his 1st wife Leah, and Jacob and Leah's 4th born son Judah. Over a decade after David was born, Samuel the priest, prophet and judge from the tribe of Jacob and Leah's 4th born son Levi, anointed David to reign as king, according to the command of the Lord God. When David was 30 years old, he began to reign only over the tribe of Judah in the Promised Land. When David was 37 1/2 years old, he began to rule over all of the Israelites in the Promised Land, the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, and Isaac, and to Jacob, and their descendants. David was a psalmist and is widely recognized as the divinely inspired writer of Psalm 60 in the Holy Bible. In addition to the details David revealed about Shechem, and the valley of Succoth, and Gilead, and Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Judah, and Moab, and Edom, and Philistia, other Scriptures in the Holy Bible reveal that:
-Shechem (Sichem) was the place in Canaan wherein Abraham arrived with Sarah and their nephew Lot, sometime after Abraham and Sarah's 205-year-old father Terah died in Haran.
-Succoth was the place on the other side of the Jordan River, across from Canaan, the Promised Land. In Succoth, Jacob built a house and booths after reconnecting with his older fraternal twin brother Edom (Esau).
-Succoth was the name of the 1st region the Israelites camped within after Moses and Moses' older brother Aaron led them away from Egyptian slavery, across the divinely parted Red Sea, and into the desert wilderness of Shur, according to the commands of the Lord God.
-Gilead was on the side of the Jordan River across from the Promised Land, in the portion of land that Moses gave to the descendants of Machir, the son born to Manasseh.
-Manasseh was the 1st son born to Joseph and his wife Asenath. Joseph was the 1st son born to Jacob and his 2nd wife Rachel. Half of the tribe of Manasseh, including the Gileadites, the descendants of Machir's son Gilead, lived on the other side of the Jordan River, the same side whereupon Moses, Aaron and their fellow Israelites wandered through for 40 years during their journey from Egypt to Canaan, the Promised Land.
-Ephraim was the 2nd son born to Joseph and Asenath. Joshua, Moses' aide and successor, was from the tribe of Ephraim. Over 400 years after Joshua led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River, and each tribe was allotted its portion of the Promised Land, and David's grandson King Rehoboam was reigning and gave a specific answer, the Israelites split into 2 kingdoms, according to the will of the Lord God, due to the idolatry and other wickedness of Rehoboam's father King Solomon. The tribe of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin became Judah, the nation in the south. The other Israelite tribes became the northern nation of Israel. The tribe of Ephraim was a large and prominent tribe in the northern nation of Israel, full of many warriors, and the northern nation was often identified as Ephraim.-Moab was the son born to Lot and Lot's oldest daughter. Their descendants the Moabites were enemies of the Israelites.
-The Edomites were descendants of Esau, and were enemies of the Israelites.
-Philistia was an area in the Promised Land that was occupied by the Philistines. The Philistines were enemies of the Israelites, and descended from Noah the ark builder, and Noah's son Ham, and Ham's son Mizraim. The Israelites descended from Noah's son Shem, and Shem's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren Abraham and Sarah, their son Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and Isaac and Rebekah's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob.
Over 900 years after Rehoboam became the 1st king to rule Judah, and Jeroboam, the son born to Nebat and Zeruah, became the 1st king to rule the northern nation of Israel in the Promised Land, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Jacob and Leah's 4th born son Judah, the tribe of David and his descendants, all of Judah's kings, to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis, Exodus, Numbers 13:1-14:45, 20:1-27:23, 32:1-36:13, Deuteronomy 1:1-3:29, 31:1-34:12, Joshua, Judges 1:1-2:23, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26