King James Version · The united kingdom
Proverbs 22
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A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving rather than silver and gold. The rich and meet together: is the maker of them all. A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. By humility and the are riches, and , and life. and snares are in of the froward: he that doth keep his shall be far from them. Train up a child in he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. The rich ruleth over , and the borrower is servant to the lender. He that soweth shall reap : and the of his shall fail. He that hath a bountiful eye shall be ; for he giveth of his bread to . Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and shall cease. He that loveth pureness of , for the of his the king shall be his friend. The eyes of preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor. The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets. The of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of shall fall therein. Foolishness is bound in of a child; but the of shall drive it far from him. He that oppresseth to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want. thine ear, and hear the words of , and apply thine unto my knowledge. For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy . That thy may be in , I have to thee this day, even to thee. Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee? Rob not , because he is : neither oppress in the : For will plead their cause, and spoil the of those that spoiled them. Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy . Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts. If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean 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.