King James Version · The united kingdom
Proverbs 9
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hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: She hath killed her ; she hath mingled her ; she hath also furnished her table. She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth , she saith to him, Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the which I have mingled. Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in of . He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself : and he that rebuketh a man getteth himself a blot. Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a man, and he will love thee. Give to a man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a man, and he will increase in learning. The is the beginning of : and the knowledge of the is . For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased. If thou be , thou shalt be for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it. A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the of the city, To call passengers who go right on their ways: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth , she saith to him, Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. But he knoweth not that are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
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.