King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 108
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A Song or Psalm of . O , is fixed; I will sing and give , even with my . Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself early. I will thee, O , among the people: and I will sing unto thee among the nations. For thy mercy is great above : and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds. Be thou exalted, O , above : and thy above all the earth; That thy beloved may be : with thy , and answer me. hath spoken in his ; I will rejoice, I will divide , and mete out the valley of . is mine; is mine; also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver; is my washpot; over will I cast out my shoe; over will I triumph. Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into ? Wilt not thou, O , who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O , go forth with our hosts? Give us help from trouble: for is the help of man. Through we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our .
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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