World English Bible · The united kingdom
Psalms 103
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By . , ! All that is within me, his name! , , and don't forget all his benefits, who forgives all your , who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from , who you with and , who satisfies your with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. executes acts, and for all who are oppressed. He his ways to , his deeds to the . is merciful and , , and abundant in . He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry . He has not dealt with us according to our , nor repaid us for our . For as are high above the earth, so great is his toward those who fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our from us. Like a has on his children, so has on those who fear him. For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are . As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more. But is from to with those who fear him, his to children's children, to those who keep his , to those who remember to his precepts. has established his in . rules over all. , you of his, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, obeying the voice of his word. , all you armies of his, you servants of his, who do his pleasure. , all you works of his, in all places of his . , !
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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.
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