King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 132
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A . , remember , and all his afflictions: How he sware unto , and unto the mighty of ; Surely I will not come into the of my house, nor go up into my bed; I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids, Until I find out a place for , an habitation for the mighty of . Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood. We will go into his tabernacles: we will at . Arise, O , into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength. Let thy priests be clothed with ; and let thy shout for joy. For thy servant ’s sake turn not away the of thine . hath in truth unto ; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy . If thy children will keep my and my that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy for evermore. For hath chosen ; he hath it for his habitation. This is for ever: here will I ; for I have it. I will abundantly her provision: I will satisfy her with bread. I will also clothe her priests with : and her shall shout aloud for joy. There will I make of to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine . His will I clothe with : but upon himself shall his flourish.
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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