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1 Chronicles 7
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Of the sons of : , , , and , four. The sons of : , , Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses, of ; of valor in their generations. Their number in the days of was twenty-two thousand six hundred. 3The son of : Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: , , , and , five; all of them chief men. With them, by their generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons. 5Their brothers among all the families of , of valor, listed in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand. The sons of : , , and , three. The sons of : Ezbon, , , , and Iri, five; heads of fathers' houses, of valor; and they were listed by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four. 8The sons of : Zemirah, , , , , , , , and . All these were the sons of . 9They were listed by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, of valor, twenty thousand two hundred. The son of : . The sons of : , , , Chenaanah, Zethan, , and Ahishahar. All these were sons of , according to the heads of their fathers' households, of valor, seventeen thousand two hundred, who were able to go out in the army for war. So were , , the sons of Ir, , and the sons of Aher. The sons of : Jahziel, , , , and the sons of . The sons of : , whom the Aramitess bore. She bore of . took a wife of and , whose sister's name was . The name of the second was ; and had daughters. 16 the wife of bore a son, and she named him Peresh. The name of his brother was ; and his sons were and Rakem. The sons of : Bedan. These were the sons of the son of , the son of . His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, , and . 19The sons of were Ahian, , , and . The sons of : , his son, his son, his son, his son, 21 his son, his son, , and , whom the men of who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their livestock. their mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him. He went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and he named him , because there was trouble with his house. His daughter was Sheerah, who built the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah. 25 was his son, his son, his son, his son, 26 his son, his son, his son, his son, and Joshua his son. Their possessions and settlements were and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward with its towns; also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns; and by the borders of the children of , and its towns, and its towns, and its towns, and and its towns. The children of the son of Israel lived in these. The sons of Asher: , Ishvah, , and . was their sister. 31The sons of : and , who was of Birzaith. 32 became of , , Hotham, and Shua their sister. 33The sons of : Pasach, , and . These are the children of . 34The sons of : Ahi, , Jehubbah, and . 35The sons of Helem his brother: , , , and . 36The sons of : , , , , , 37, , , , , and . 38The sons of : , Pispa, and Ara. 39The sons of Ulla: Arah, , and Rizia. All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers' houses, choice and of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them listed by genealogy for in war was twenty-six thousand men.
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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.