King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 30
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A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of . I will extol thee, O ; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my to rejoice over me. O my , I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. O , thou hast brought up from the : thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to . Sing unto , O ye of his, and at the remembrance of his . For his endureth but a moment; in his is life: weeping may for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. , by thy thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy , and I was troubled. I cried to thee, O ; and unto I made . What profit is there in my , when I go down to ? Shall thee? shall it declare thy truth? Hear, O , and have mercy upon me: , be thou my helper. Thou hast turned for me my into dancing: thou hast put off my , and girded me with gladness; To the end that my may sing to thee, and not be silent. O my , I will unto thee 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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