He slew also of [a]Edom in the valley of salt, ten thousand, and took [b]the city of Sela by war, and called the name thereof Joktheel unto this day.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 14:7 For the Idumeans, whom David had brought to subjection, did rebel in the time of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat.
  2. 2 Kings 14:7 Or, the tower, or rock, 2 Chron. 25:32.

He was the one who defeated ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt(A) and captured Sela(B) in battle, calling it Joktheel, the name it has to this day.

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