World English Bible · The united kingdom
Psalms 33
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Rejoice in , you ! is fitting for the upright. to with the lyre. Sing to him with the harp of ten strings. Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy! For word is right. All his work is done in . He loves and . The earth is full of the of . By word, were made: all their army by the breath of his . He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses. Let all the earth . Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm. brings the of the nations to nothing. He makes the of the peoples to be of no effect. stands , the of . is the nation whose is , the people whom he has chosen for his own . looks from . He sees all the sons of men. From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, he who fashions all of their ; and he considers all of their works. There is no king by of an army. A mighty man is not by great strength. A horse is a thing for safety, neither does he any by his great . Behold, eye is on those who fear him, on those who in his , to their from , to keep them alive in . Our has waited for . He is our help and our shield. For our rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his name. Let your be on us, , since we have in you.
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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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