King James Version · The united kingdom
1 Chronicles 15
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And made him houses in , and prepared a place for the , and pitched for it a tent. Then said, None ought to carry the but the : for them hath chosen to carry the , and to minister unto him for ever. And gathered all Israel together to , to bring up the unto his place, which he had prepared for it. And assembled the children of , and the : Of the sons of ; the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty: Of the sons of ; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty: Of the sons of ; the chief, and his brethren an hundred and thirty: Of the sons of ; the chief, and his brethren two hundred: Of the sons of ; the chief, and his brethren fourscore: Of the sons of ; the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve. And called for and the priests, and for the , for , Asaiah, and , , and , and , And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the : yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it. For because ye did it not at the first, our made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order. So the priests and the themselves to bring up the of Israel. And the children of the the upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as commanded according to the word of . And spake to the chief of the to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy. So the appointed the son of ; and of his brethren, the son of ; and of the sons of their brethren, the son of Kushaiah; And with them their brethren of the second degree, , Ben, and , and , and , and Unni, Eliab, and , and , and , and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and , and , the porters. So the singers, , , and , were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass; And , and Aziel, and , and , and Unni, and Eliab, and , and , with psalteries on ; And , and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and , and , and , with harps on the to excel. And Chenaniah, chief of the , was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful. And and were doorkeepers for the ark. And , and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and , and , and , and , the priests, did blow with the before the : and and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark. So , and the , and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the of out of the house of with joy. And it came to pass, when helped the that the of , that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams. And was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the that the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: also had upon him an of linen. Thus all Israel brought up the of with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with , and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps. And it came to pass, as the of came to , that the daughter of looking out at a window saw king dancing and playing: and she despised him in her .
The 1611 translation, public domain. Its original printing included the Apocrypha, which is why the deuterocanonical books can be read here. Notes and cards are EKLI’s own.
The world at this moment · The united kingdom, 1050 BC to 931 BC ›
Saul, David, and Solomon. A rare window when both Egypt and Mesopotamia are weak, which is how a small kingdom in the corridor between them could briefly become a regional power.
- The power vacuum
- This is the whole political explanation for the united kingdom. Egypt is fragmented, Assyria is recovering but still local, the Hittites are gone, and nobody is in a position to object to a strong state in the corridor. It lasts about a century, and Israel's golden age fits exactly inside it.
- Phoenicia
- Tyre under Hiram is the commercial power of the coast, and supplies the cedar, the craftsmen, and the shipping for Solomon's building programme. The alliance is trade, not charity: Israel had grain and a land route, Tyre had timber and ships.
- Egypt
- Weak enough that a pharaoh gives a daughter in marriage to an Israelite king, which is the opposite of Egyptian practice in stronger centuries. Late in the era it recovers under a new house, and Shishak will invade within five years of Solomon's death.
- Further afield
- Greece is still in its dark age but beginning to recover, and will adopt the Phoenician alphabet within a century or two. Carthage is founded by settlers from Tyre by tradition in 814 BC. In the Americas the Olmec centre shifts to La Venta.