King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 145
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’s Psalm of . I will extol thee, my , O king; and thy name . Every day will I thee; and I will thy name . Great is , and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. I will speak of the of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works. And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness. They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy . is , and full of ; , and of great mercy. is good to all: and his are over all his works. All thy works shall thee, O ; and thy shall thee. They shall speak of the of thy kingdom, and talk of thy ; To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the majesty of . Thy kingdom is an kingdom, and thy endureth throughout all generations. upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be . The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the of every living thing. is in all his ways, and in all his works. is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will them. preserveth all them that love him: but all will he destroy. My shall speak the of : and let his name .
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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