World English Bible · The united kingdom
1 Chronicles 24
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These were the divisions of the sons of . The sons of : , , , and . But and before their , and had ; therefore and as priests. , with of the sons of and of the sons of , divided them according to their ordering in their . There were more chief men found of the sons of than of the sons of ; and they were divided like this: of the sons of there were sixteen, heads of fathers' houses; and of the sons of , according to their fathers' houses, eight. Thus they were divided impartially by drawing lots; for there were princes of and princes of , both of the sons of , and of the sons of . the son of the , who was of the , wrote them in the of the king, the princes, the priest, the son of , and the heads of the fathers' households of the priests and of the ; one fathers' house being taken for , and one taken for . Now the first lot came out to Jehoiarib, the second to , the third to , the fourth to , the fifth to , the sixth to , the seventh to , the eighth to , the ninth to , the tenth to , the eleventh to , the twelfth to Jakim, 13the thirteenth to , the fourteenth to , the fifteenth to , the sixteenth to , 15the seventeenth to , the eighteenth to Happizzez, 16the nineteenth to , the twentieth to Jehezkel, 17the twenty-first to , the twenty-second to Gamul, 18the twenty-third to , and the twenty-fourth to . This was their ordering in their , to come into house according to the given to them by their , as , the of Israel, had commanded him. Of the rest of the : of the sons of , ; of the sons of , Jehdeiah. Of : of the sons of , the chief. Of the , ; of the sons of , Jahath. The sons of : Jeriah, the second, the third, and Jekameam the fourth. The sons of : Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir. The brother of Micah: ; of the sons of , . The sons of : and . The son of : . The sons of by : , , , and . Of : , who had no sons. 29Of , the son of : . The sons of : , , and . These were the sons of the after their fathers' houses. These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of in the of the king, , , and the heads of the fathers' households of the priests and of the , the fathers' households of the chief even as those of his younger brother.
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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.