King James Version · The united kingdom
1 Chronicles 24
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Now these are the divisions of the sons of . The sons of ; , and , , and . But and before their , and had : therefore and executed the priest’s office. And distributed them, both of the sons of , and of the sons of , according to their offices in their . And there were more chief men found of the sons of than of the sons of ; and thus were they divided. Among the sons of there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sons of according to the house of their fathers. Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the governors of , and governors of the house of , were of the sons of , and of the sons of . And the son of Nethaneel the , one of the , wrote them before the king, and the princes, and the priest, and the son of , and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and : one principal household being taken for , and one taken for . Now the first lot came forth 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 , 16The nineteenth to , the twentieth to Jehezekel, 17The one and twentieth to , the two and twentieth to Gamul, 18The three and twentieth to , the four and twentieth to . These were the orderings of them in their to come into the , according to their manner, under their , as of Israel had commanded him. And the rest of the were these: Of the sons of ; : of the sons of ; Jehdeiah. Concerning : of the sons of , the first was . Of the ; : of the sons of ; Jahath. And the sons of ; Jeriah the first, the second, the third, Jekameam the fourth. Of the sons of ; Michah: of the sons of Michah; Shamir. The brother of Michah was : of the sons of ; . The sons of were and : the sons of ; . The sons of by ; , and , and , and . Of came , who had no sons. 29Concerning : the son of was . The sons also of ; , and , and . These were the sons of the after the house of their fathers. These likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons of in the of the king, and , and , and the chief of the fathers of the priests and , even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren.
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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.