King James Version · The united kingdom
1 Chronicles 4
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The sons of Judah; Pharez, , and Carmi, and , and . And the son of begat Jahath; and Jahath begat Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites. And these were of of Etam; , and Ishma, and Idbash: and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi: And of Gedor, and of . These are the sons of , of Ephratah, of Beth–lehem. And Ashur of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. 6And Naarah him Ahuzam, and , and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. 7And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and . 8And Coz begat , and Zobebah, and the families of the son of Harum. And was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name , saying, Because I him with sorrow. And called on the of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And granted him that which he requested. 11And the brother of begat , which was of . 12And begat , and , and of Ir–nahash. These are the men of Rechah. And the sons of ; , and : and the sons of ; Hathath. And Meonothai begat : and begat , of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen. And the sons of the son of ; Iru, , and : and the sons of , even . 16And the sons of Jehaleleel; , and , , and Asareel. And the sons of were, , and , and , and : and she , and , and of . And his wife Jehudijah Jered of Gedor, and of Socho, and of . And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of , which took. And the sons of his wife the sister of , of the Garmite, and the Maachathite. 20And the sons of Shimon were, , and , , and . And the sons of were, , and Ben–zoheth. The sons of the son of Judah were, of Lecah, and Laadah of , and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea, 22And Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and , and Saraph, who had the in , and Jashubi–lehem. And these are ancient things. These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work. The sons of were, , and , , , and : 25 his son, his son, his son. 26And the sons of ; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, his son. And had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah. And they dwelt at Beer–sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar–shual, And at , and at Ezem, and at Tolad, And at Bethuel, and at , and at , And at Beth–marcaboth, and Hazar–susim, and at Beth–birei, and at . These were their cities unto the reign of . And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, , and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities: And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto . These were their habitations, and their genealogy. 34And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of , 35And , and the son of Josibiah, the son of , the son of Asiel, 36And , and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and , and Jesimiel, and , 37And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of , the son of Shimri, the son of ; These mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly. And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of had dwelt there of old. And these written by name came in the days of king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks. And some of them, even of the sons of , five hundred men, went to mount , having for their captains , and , and , and , the sons of . And they smote the rest of that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.
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.