World English Bible · The divided kingdom
2 Chronicles 27
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was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in . His mother's name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok. He did that which was right in eyes, according to all that his had done. However he didn't enter into temple. The people still acted corruptly. He built the upper of house, and he built much on the wall of . Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the forests he built fortresses and towers. He also fought with the king of , and prevailed against them. gave him the same year one hundred of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand cors of barley. also gave that much to him in the second year, and in the third. So became mighty, because he ordered his ways before his . Now the rest of the acts of , and all his wars and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in . slept with his fathers, and they in city; and his son reigned in his place.
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The world at this moment · The divided kingdom, 931 BC to 745 BC ›
Israel in the north and Judah in the south, often at odds, with Aram of Damascus as the immediate threat and Assyria growing in the distance.
- Aram of Damascus
- The immediate enemy for most of two centuries, close enough to raid every campaigning season and strong enough to take territory. Most of the wars in Kings that read like national emergencies are border wars with Damascus.
- Assyria
- Growing steadily in the distance. Shalmaneser III fights a coalition at Qarqar in 853 BC and his own inscription lists King Ahab of Israel among his opponents with two thousand chariots, the earliest Assyrian mention of an Israelite king. A later monument shows Jehu bowing and paying tribute. Assyria is not yet the destroyer, but it is already taking notes.
- Egypt
- Divided and unreliable, capable of the occasional raid, such as Shishak stripping the temple in Rehoboam's fifth year, but no longer an empire that governs the Levant.
- Further afield
- The Greeks adopt the alphabet, hold the first Olympiad by tradition in 776 BC, and begin to compose the Homeric poems. Rome is founded by tradition in 753 BC, a village of huts at this point. This is the century in which the classical world begins.