King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 33
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Rejoice in , O ye : for is comely for the upright. with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise. For the word of is right; and all his works are done in truth. He loveth and : the earth is full of the goodness of . By the word of were made; and of them by the breath of his . He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. Let all the earth : let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood . bringeth the of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. standeth for ever, the of . is the nation whose is ; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own . looketh from ; he beholdeth all the sons of men. From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. He fashioneth their alike; he considereth all their works. There is no king by of an host: a mighty man is not by much strength. An horse is a thing for safety: neither shall he any by his great strength. Behold, the eye of is upon them that fear him, upon them that in his mercy; To their from , and to keep them alive in . Our waiteth for : he is our help and our shield. For our shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his name. Let thy mercy, O , be upon us, according as we in thee.
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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