King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 24
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. The earth is ’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill of ? or who shall stand in his place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure ; who hath not lifted up his unto , nor deceitfully. He shall receive the from , and from the of his . This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy , O . . Lift up your heads, O ye ; and be ye lift up, ye doors; and the King of shall come in. Who is this King of ? strong and mighty, mighty in battle. 9Lift up your heads, O ye ; even lift them up, ye doors; and the King of shall come in. Who is this King of ? of hosts, he is the King of . .
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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