World English Bible · The united kingdom
1 Chronicles 2
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These are the : , , , Judah, , , 2Dan, , , , Gad, and Asher. The sons of Judah: , , and , which three were born to him of Shua's daughter the Canaanitess. , Judah's , was in sight; and he killed him. his daughter-in-law bore him and . All the sons of Judah were five. The sons of : and . The sons of : Zimri, , , Calcol, and Dara—five of them in all. The son of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in . 8The son of : . The sons also of , who were born to him: , , and Chelubai. became of , and became of , prince of the children of Judah; and became of , and became of , and became of , and became of ; and became of his Eliab, the second, Shimea the third, 14 the fourth, Raddai the fifth, Ozem the sixth, and the seventh; and their sisters were and . The sons of : , , and , three. bore ; and of was the . 18 the son of became of children by his wife, and by ; and these were her sons: Jesher, , and . , and married , who bore him . became of , and became of . Afterward went in to the daughter of of , whom he took as wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub. Segub became of , who had twenty-three cities in the land of . Geshur and took the towns of from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of of . After in , , wife, bore him Ashhur of Tekoa. 25The sons of of were , , Oren, Ozem, and . 26 had another wife, whose name was Atarah. She was the mother of . 27The sons of of were Maaz, , and Eker. 28The sons of were and . The sons of : and . 29The name of the wife of was ; and she bore him and . 30The sons of : and ; but without children. The son of : . The son of : . The son of : . 32The sons of the brother of : and ; and without children. 33The sons of : Peleth and . These were the sons of . 34Now had no sons, but only daughters. had a servant, an , whose name was Jarha. 35 gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife; and she bore him Attai. Attai became of , and became of , 37and became of Ephlal, and Ephlal became of , 38and became of , and became of , 39and became of , and became of , 40and became of , and became of , 41and became of , and became of . The sons of the brother of were his , who was of , and the sons of of . 43The sons of : , Tappuah, , and . 44 became of Raham, of ; and became of . The son of was ; and was of . , , bore , , and Gazez; and became of Gazez. 47The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jothan, Geshan, Pelet, , and . , , bore and . She bore also of , Sheva of Machbena and of ; and the daughter of was . These were the sons of , the son of , of : of , of , and of Beth Gader. of had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth. The families of : the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites. The sons of : , the Netophathites, Atroth Beth , and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. The families of who lived at : the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These are the who came from Hammath, of the house of .
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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.