King James Version · The united kingdom
1 Chronicles 25
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Moreover and the captains of the host separated to the of the sons of , and of , and of , who should with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their was: Of the sons of ; , and , and , and Asarelah, the sons of under the hands of , which prophesied according to the order of the king. Of : the sons of ; , and Zeri, and , , and , six, under the hands of their , who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to . Of : the sons of ; Bukkiah, , , Shebuel, and , Hananiah, , Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti–ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth: All these were the sons of the king’s seer in the words of , to lift up . And gave to fourteen sons and three daughters. All these were under the hands of their for song in the , with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the of the house of , according to the king’s order to , , and . So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of , even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight. And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar. 9Now the first lot came forth for to : the second to , who with his brethren and sons were twelve: 10The third to , he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 11The fourth to Izri, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 12The fifth to , he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 13The sixth to Bukkiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 14The seventh to Jesharelah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 15The eighth to , he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 16The ninth to , he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 17The tenth to , he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 18The eleventh to Azareel, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 19The twelfth to , he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 20The thirteenth to , he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 21The fourteenth to , he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 22The fifteenth to , he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 23The sixteenth to Hananiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 24The seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 25The eighteenth to , he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 26The nineteenth to Mallothi, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 27The twentieth to Eliathah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 28The one and twentieth to Hothir, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 29The two and twentieth to Giddalti, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 30The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: 31The four and twentieth to Romamti–ezer, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve.
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.