World English Bible · The united kingdom
Psalms 105
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to ! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples. Sing to him, sing to him! Tell of all his marvelous works. in his name. Let of those who seek rejoice. Seek and his strength. Seek more. Remember his marvelous works that he has done: his wonders, and of his , you of , his servant, you children of , his chosen ones. He is , our . His judgments are in all the earth. He has remembered his , the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, which he made with , his to , and confirmed it to for a ; to Israel for an , saying, "To you I will give the land of , the lot of your ," when they were but men in number, yes, very few, and in it. 13They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people. He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes, "Don't touch my ones! Do my no harm!" He called for a on the land. He destroyed the food supplies. He sent a man before them. was sold for a . They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons, until the time that his word happened, and word proved him true. The king sent and freed him, even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free. He made him of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions, to his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his . Israel also came into . lived in the land of . He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their . He turned their to hate his people, to conspire against his servants. He sent , his servant, and , whom he had chosen. They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of . He sent , and made it dark. They didn't rebel against his words. He turned their waters into , and killed their fish. Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the rooms of their kings. He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders. He gave them hail for , with lightning in their land. He struck their and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country. He spoke, and the came with the , without number. 35They ate up every plant in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground. He struck also all in their land, the of all their manhood. He brought them out with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes. was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them. He spread a cloud for a covering, to give in the night. They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of . He opened , and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places. For he remembered his word, and , his servant. He brought his people out with joy, his chosen with singing. He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession, that they might keep his , and observe his laws. !
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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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