King James Version · The united kingdom
1 Chronicles 5
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Now the sons of of Israel, (for he was ; but, forasmuch as he defiled his ’s bed, his was given unto the the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be after the . For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the was ’s:) The sons, I say, of of Israel were, , and , , and Carmi. 4The sons of ; his son, his son, his son, 5Micah his son, Reaia his son, his son, Beerah his son, whom Tilgath–pilneser king of : he was prince of the . And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was , were the chief, , and , And the son of Azaz, the son of , the son of , who dwelt in , even unto and : And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of from the river : because their cattle were multiplied in the land of . And in the days of they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of . And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of unto Salchah: 12 the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and in . 13And their brethren of the house of their fathers were, , and , and , and , and , and , and , seven. 14These are the children of the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of , the son of , the son of , the son of , the son of ; 15Ahi the son of , the son of , chief of the house of their fathers. And they dwelt in in , and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders. All these were by genealogies in the days of king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel. The sons of , and the , and half the tribe of , of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and , and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war. And they made war with the Hagarites, with , and Nephish, and Nodab. And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their in him. And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand. For there fell down many slain, because the war was of . And they dwelt in their steads until . And the children of the half tribe of dwelt in the land: they increased from unto –hermon and Senir, and unto . And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even , and , and , and , and , and , and Jahdiel, of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers. And they transgressed against the of their fathers, and went a after the gods of the people of the land, whom destroyed before them. And the of Israel stirred up of Pul king of , and of Tilgath–pilneser king of , and he carried them away, even the , and the , and the half tribe of , and brought them unto , and , and Hara, and to the river , 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.
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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.