King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 16
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Michtam of . Preserve me, O : for in thee do I put my . O , thou hast said unto , Thou art my : my goodness extendeth not to thee; But to that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight. Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another : their drink of will I not offer, nor take up their names into my . is the of mine and of : thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. , who hath given me : my reins also instruct me in the night seasons. I have set always before me: because he is , I shall not be moved. Therefore is glad, and my rejoiceth: my also shall rest in . For thou wilt not leave in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me of life: in thy is fulness of joy; at thy there are pleasures for evermore.
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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