King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 28
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. Unto thee will I cry, O ; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into . Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy oracle. Draw me not away with , and with the workers of , which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their . Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their . Because they regard not the works of , nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up. be , because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. is my strength and my shield; trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I him. is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his . thy people, and thine : feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
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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