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1 Chronicles 5
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The sons of of Israel (for he was , but because he defiled his couch, his was given to the the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the . For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the was )— the sons of of Israel: , , , and Carmi. 4The sons of : his son, his son, his son, 5Micah his son, his son, his son, and Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of . He was prince of the . His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was listed: the chief, , and , and the son of Azaz, the son of , the son of , who lived in , even to and ; and he lived eastward even to the entrance of from the river , because their livestock were multiplied in the land of . In the days of , they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the land east of . The sons of Gad lived beside them in the land of to : 12 the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and in . 13Their brothers of their fathers' houses: , , , , Jacan, , and , seven. 14These were the sons 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 their fathers' houses. They lived in in and in its towns, and in all the pasture lands of Sharon as far as their borders. All these were listed by genealogies in the days of king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel. The sons of , the , and the half-tribe of , of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and , able to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred sixty that were able to go out to war. They made war with the Hagrites, with , and , and Nodab. They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to in the battle, and he answered them because they put their in him. They took away their livestock: of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand. For many fell slain, because the war was of . They lived in their place until . The children of the half-tribe of lived in the land. They increased from to Hermon, Senir, and . These were the heads of their fathers' houses: , , , , , , and Jahdiel— of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses. They trespassed against the of their fathers, and after the gods of the peoples of the land whom destroyed before them. So the of Israel stirred up of Pul king of , and of Tilgath Pilneser king of , and he the , the , and the half-tribe of , and brought them to , , Hara, and to the river of , to this day.
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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.