King James Version · The united kingdom
1 Chronicles 7
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Now the sons of were, , and , , and , four. And the sons of ; , and , and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their ’s house, to wit, of : they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of two and twenty thousand and six hundred. 3And the sons of ; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; , and , and , Ishiah, five: all of them chief men. And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons. 5And their brethren among all the families of were valiant men of might, in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand. The sons of ; , and , and , three. And the sons of ; Ezbon, and , and , and , and Iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, of valour; and were by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four. 8And the sons of ; Zemira, and , and , and , and , and , and Abiah, and , and Alameth. All these are the sons of . 9And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred. The sons also of ; : and the sons of ; , and , and , and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar. All these the sons of , by the heads of their fathers, of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle. also, and , the children of Ir, and , the sons of Aher. The sons of ; Jahziel, and , and , and , the sons of . The sons of ; Ashriel, whom she : (but the Aramitess of : And took to wife the sister of and , whose sister’s name was Maachah;) and the name of the second was : and had daughters. 16And Maachah the wife of a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was ; and his sons were and Rakem. And the sons of ; Bedan. These were the sons of , the son of , the son of . And his sister Hammoleketh Ishod, and , and Mahalah. 19And the sons of were, Ahian, and , and , and . And the sons of ; , and his son, and his son, and Eladah his son, and his son, 21And his son, and his son, and , and , whom the men of that were born in that land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle. And their mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him. And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and a son, and he called his name , because it went evil with his house. (And his daughter was Sherah, who built the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen–sherah.) 25And was his son, also , and his son, and his son, 26Laadan his son, his son, his son, Non his son, Jehoshua his son. And their possessions and habitations were, Beth–el and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward , with the towns thereof; also and the towns thereof, unto and the towns thereof: And by the borders of the children of , and her towns, and her towns, and her towns, and her towns. In these dwelt the children of the son of Israel. The sons of Asher; , and Isuah, and Ishuai, and , and their sister. 31And the sons of ; , and , who is of Birzavith. 32And begat , and , and Hotham, and Shua their sister. 33And the sons of ; Pasach, and , and . These are the children of . 34And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and , Jehubbah, and . 35And the sons of his brother Helem; , and , and , and . 36The sons of ; , and , and , and , and , 37, and , and , and , and , and . 38And the sons of ; , and Pispah, and Ara. 39And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia. All these were the children of Asher, heads of their ’s house, choice and of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.
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.