World English Bible · The united kingdom
1 Samuel 10
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Then took the vial of oil and poured it on his head, then kissed him and said, "Hasn't you to be prince over his ? When you have departed from me today, then you will find two men by , on the border of at Zelzah. They will tell you, 'The donkeys which you went to look for have been found; and behold, your has stopped caring about the donkeys and is anxious for you, saying, "What shall I do for my son?"' "Then you will go on forward from there, and you will come to the oak of . Three men will meet you there going up to to : one carrying three young goats, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a container of . They will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall receive from their hand. "After that you will come to the hill of , where the garrison of the is; and it will happen, when you have come there to the city, that you will meet a band of coming down from the with a lute, a tambourine, a pipe, and a harp before them; and they will be prophesying. Then will come mightily on you, then you will with them and will be turned into another man. Let it be, when these signs have come to you, that you do what is appropriate for the occasion; for is with you. "Go down ahead of me to ; and behold, I will come down to you to offer and to of . Wait seven days, until I come to you and show you what you are to do." It was so, that when he had turned his back to go from , gave him another ; and all those signs happened that day. When they came there to the hill, behold, a band of met him; and of came mightily on him, and he prophesied among them. When all who knew him before saw that, behold, he prophesied with , then the people said to one another, "What is this that has come to the son of ? Is also among ?" One from the same place answered, "Who is their ?" Therefore it became a , "Is also among ?" 13When he had finished prophesying, he came to the . uncle said to him and to his servant, "Where did you go?" He said, "To seek the donkeys. When we saw that they were not found, we came to ." 15 uncle said, "Please tell me what said to you." said to his uncle, "He told us plainly that the donkeys were found." But concerning the matter of , of which spoke, he didn't tell him. called the people together to to ; and he said to the , ", the of Israel, says 'I brought Israel up out of and I you out of the hand of the , and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.' But you have today rejected your , who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, 'No! Set a king over us!' Now therefore present yourselves before by your tribes and by your thousands." So brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of was chosen. 21He brought the tribe of near by their families and the family of the Matrites was chosen. Then the son of was chosen; but when they looked for him, he could not be found. Therefore they asked of further, "Is there yet a man to come here?" answered, "Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage." They ran and got him there. When he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward. said to all the people, "Do you see him whom has chosen, that there is no one like him among all the people?" All the people shouted and said, "Long live the king!" Then told the people the regulations of , and wrote it in a book and laid it up before . sent all the people away, every man to his house. also went to his house in ; and the army went with him, whose had touched. But certain worthless fellows said, "How could this man us?" They despised him, and brought him no tribute. But he held his peace.
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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.