King James Version · The united kingdom
Proverbs 10
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The of . A son maketh a glad : but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. of wickedness profit nothing: but delivereth from . will not suffer the of to famish: but he casteth away the substance of . He becometh that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. He that gathereth in summer is a son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth . are upon the head of the : but covereth the of . The memory of the is : but the name of shall rot. in will receive : but a prating fool shall fall. He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known. He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall. The of a man is a well of life: but covereth the of . Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all . In of him that hath is found: but a is for the back of him that is void of . men lay up knowledge: but the of the foolish is near . The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the of is their . The labour of tendeth to life: the fruit of to . He is in of life that keepeth : but he that refuseth erreth. He that hideth hatred with , and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool. In of words there wanteth not : but he that refraineth his is . of the is as choice silver: of is little worth. of feed many: but fools for want of . The of , it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of hath . The fear of , it shall come upon him: but the of shall be granted. As the whirlwind passeth, so is no more: but is an foundation. As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him. The prolongeth days: but the years of shall be shortened. The of shall be gladness: but the of shall . of is strength to the upright: but shall be to the workers of . shall never be removed: but shall not inhabit the earth. The of the bringeth forth : but the froward shall be cut out. of know what is acceptable: but the of speaketh frowardness.
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.