King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 143
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. Hear my , O , give ear to my supplications: in thy answer me, and in thy . And enter not into with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be . For hath persecuted ; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to , as those that have been long . Therefore is overwhelmed within me; within me is desolate. I remember the days of old; I on all thy works; I on the work of thy hands. I stretch forth my hands unto thee: thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. . Hear me speedily, O : faileth: hide not thy from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into . Cause me to hear thy in the morning; for in thee do I : cause me to know wherein I should walk; for I lift up unto thee. me, O , from mine : I flee unto thee to hide me. Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my : thy is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. Quicken me, O , for thy name’s sake: for thy ’ sake bring out of trouble. And of thy mercy mine , and destroy all them that afflict : for I am thy servant.
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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