King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 105
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O unto ; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people. Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works. ye in his name: let of them rejoice that seek . Seek , and his strength: seek evermore. Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and of his ; O ye of his servant, ye children of his chosen. He is our : his judgments are in all the earth. He hath remembered his for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. Which he made with , and his unto ; And confirmed the same unto for a law, and to Israel for an : Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of , the lot of your : When they were but men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it. 13When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people; He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes; Saying, Touch not mine , and do my no harm. Moreover he called for a upon the land: he brake the whole of bread. He sent a man before them, even , who was sold for a servant: Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: Until the time that his word came: the word of tried him. The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free. He made him of his house, and ruler of all his substance: To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators . Israel also came into ; and sojourned in the land of . And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their . He turned their to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants. He sent his servant; and whom he had chosen. They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of . He sent , and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word. He turned their waters into , and slew their fish. Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings. He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts. He gave them hail for , and flaming in their land. He smote their also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts. He spake, and the came, and caterpillers, and that without number, 35And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground. He smote also all in their land, the chief of all their strength. He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes. was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them. He spread a cloud for a covering; and to give in the night. The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the . He opened , and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river. For he remembered his promise, and his servant. And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness: And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they the labour of the people; That they might observe his , and keep his laws. ye .
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.
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