World English Bible · The united kingdom
1 Chronicles 26
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For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the , the son of , of the sons of . had sons: , the second, the third, Jathniel the fourth, 3 the fifth, the sixth, and Eliehoenai the seventh. had sons: , the second, the third, Sacar the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, the seventh, and Peullethai the eighth; for him. Sons were also born to his son, who ruled over the house of their ; for they were of valor. 7The sons of : Othni, Rephael, , and Elzabad, whose relatives were valiant men, , and Semachiah. All these were of the sons of with their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the : sixty-two of . had sons and brothers, eighteen valiant men. Also , of the children of , had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not , yet his made him chief), 11Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, and the fourth. All the sons and brothers of were thirteen. Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in house. They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers' houses, for every . 14The lot eastward fell to . Then for his son, a , they cast lots; and his lot came out northward. To southward; and to his sons the . To and westward, by the of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watchman opposite watchman. Eastward were six , northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the two and two. For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar. These were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the , and of the sons of . Of the , was over the of house and over the of the dedicated things. The sons of , the sons of the belonging to , the heads of the fathers' households belonging to the Gershonite: Jehieli. The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and his brother, over the of house. Of the Amramites, of the , of the , of the Uzzielites: Shebuel the son of , the son of , was ruler over the treasuries. His brothers: of , his son, and his son, and his son, and his son, and his son. This and his brothers were over all the treasuries of the dedicated things, which the king, and the heads of the fathers' households, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the army, had dedicated. They dedicated some of the plunder won in battles to repair house. All that the seer, the son of , the son of , and the son of had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of and of his brothers. Of the , Chenaniah and his sons were appointed to the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges. Of the , and his brothers, one thousand seven hundred men of valor, had the oversight of Israel beyond westward, for all the business of and for the of the king. Of the , Jerijah was the chief of the , according to their generations by fathers' households. They were sought for in the fortieth year of the reign of , and of valor were found among them at of . His relatives, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred, heads of fathers' households, whom King made overseers over the , the , and the half-tribe of the , for every matter pertaining to and for the affairs of the king.
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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.