World English Bible · The united kingdom
Psalms 17
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A by . Hear, , my plea. Give ear to my that doesn't go out of deceitful . Let my sentence come out of your . Let your eyes look on equity. You have proved . You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my shall not disobey. As for the deeds of men, by the word of your , I have kept myself from the ways of the . My steps have held to your . My feet have not slipped. I have called on you, for you will answer me, . Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech. Show your marvelous , you who those who take refuge by your from their . Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the , from who oppress me, my deadly , who surround me. They close up their callous . With their they speak proudly. They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth. He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. Arise, , confront him. Cast him down. from by your , from men by your hand, , from men of the world, whose is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children. As for me, I shall see your in . I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
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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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