King James Version · The united kingdom
1 Chronicles 2
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These are the ; , , , and Judah, , and , 2Dan, , and , , Gad, and Asher. The sons of Judah; , and , and : which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And , of Judah, was evil in the sight of ; and he slew him. And his daughter in law him Pharez and . All the sons of Judah were five. The sons of Pharez; , and . And the sons of ; Zimri, and , and , and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all. And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing . 8And the sons of ; . The sons also of , that were born unto him; , and , and Chelubai. And begat ; and begat , prince of the children of Judah; And begat , and begat , And begat , and begat , And begat his Eliab, and the second, and Shimma the third, 14Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, Ozem the sixth, the seventh: Whose sisters were , and . And the sons of ; , and , and , three. And : and of was the Ishmeelite. 18And the son of begat children of his wife, and of : her sons are these; Jesher, and , and . And when was , took unto him , which him . And begat , and begat Bezaleel. And afterward went in to the daughter of of , whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she him Segub. And Segub begat , who had three and twenty cities in the land of . And he took Geshur, and , with the towns of , from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of of . And after that was in –ephratah, then Abiah ’s wife him Ashur of Tekoa. 25And the sons of of were, , and , and Oren, and Ozem, and . 26 had also another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of . 27And the sons of of were, Maaz, and , and Eker. 28And the sons of were, , and . And the sons of ; , and . 29And the name of the wife of was , and she him , and . 30And the sons of ; , and : but without children. And the sons of ; . And the sons of ; . And the children of ; . 32And the sons of the brother of ; , and : and without children. 33And the sons of ; Peleth, and . These were the sons of . 34Now had no sons, but daughters. And had a servant, an , whose name was Jarha. 35And gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she him Attai. And Attai begat , and begat , 37And begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat , 38And begat , and begat , 39And begat , and begat , 40And begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat , 41And begat , and begat . Now the sons of the brother of were, his , which was of ; and the sons of of . 43And the sons of ; , and Tappuah, and , and . 44And begat Raham, of Jorkoam: and begat . And the son of was : and was of . And , ’s , , and , and Gazez: and begat Gazez. 47And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and , and Geshan, and Pelet, and , and . Maachah, ’s , , and . She also of , Sheva of , and of : and the daughter of was . These were the sons of the son of , of Ephratah; of Kirjath–jearim, of Beth–lehem, of Beth–gader. And of Kirjath–jearim had sons; Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites. And the families of Kirjath–jearim; the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites. The sons of ; Beth–lehem, and the Netophathites, , the house of , and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites. And the families of the which dwelt at ; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the that came of Hemath, of the house of .
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.