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1 Chronicles 4
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The sons of Judah: , , Carmi, , and . the son of became of Jahath; and Jahath became of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites. These were the sons of of Etam: , Ishma, and Idbash. The name of their sister was Hazzelelponi. was of Gedor and of . These are the sons of , of , of . Ashhur of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. 6Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, , Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. 7The sons of Helah were Zereth, , and . 8 became of , Zobebah, and the families of the son of Harum. was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him , saying, "Because I bore him with sorrow." called on the of Israel, saying, "Oh that you would me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!" granted him that which he requested. 11 the brother of Shuhah became of , who was of . 12 became of , , and of Ir . These are the men of Recah. The sons of : and . The sons of : Hathath. Meonothai became of : and became of of Ge Harashim, for they were craftsmen. The sons of the son of : Iru, , and . The son of : . 16The sons of : , , , and . The sons of Ezrah: , , , and ; and wife bore , , and of . His wife the Jewess bore Jered of Gedor, of , and of . These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of , whom took. The sons of the wife of , the sister of , were the fathers of the Garmite and the . 20The sons of Shimon: , , , and . The sons of : , and Ben . The sons of the son of Judah: of Lecah, Laadah of , and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea; 22and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and , and Saraph, who had in , and Jashubilehem. These records are ancient. These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and ; they lived there with the king for his work. The sons of : , , , , ; 25 his son, his son, and his son. 26The sons of : his son, his son, his son. had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn't have many children, and all their family didn't multiply like the children of Judah. They lived at , Moladah, Hazarshual, at , at Ezem, at Tolad, at Bethuel, at , at , at Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susim, at Beth Biri, and at . These were their cities until reign. Their villages were Etam, Ain, , Tochen, and Ashan, five cities; and all their villages that were around the same cities, as far as . These were their settlements, and they kept their genealogy. 34Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of , 35, the son of Joshibiah, the son of , the son of Asiel, 36, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, , Jesimiel, , 37and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of , the son of Shimri, the son of — these mentioned by name were princes in their families. Their fathers' houses increased greatly. They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. They found rich, good pasture, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceful, for those who lived there before were descended from . These written by name came in the days of king of Judah, and struck their tents and the who were found there; and they destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks. Some of them, even of the sons of , five hundred men, went to Mount , having for their captains , , , and , the sons of . They struck of who escaped, and have lived there to this day.
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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.