King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 34
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, when he changed his behaviour before ; who drove him away, and he departed. at all times: his shall continually be in my . shall make her boast in : the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify with me, and let us exalt his name together. I sought , and he heard me, and me from all my fears. They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not . This man cried, and heard him, and him out of all his troubles. encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. O taste and see that is good: is the man that trusteth in him. O , ye his : for there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack, and suffer : but they that seek shall not want any good thing. Come, ye children, unto me: I will teach you the . What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy from evil, and thy from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. The eyes of are upon , and his ears are open unto their cry. is against them that do evil, to the remembrance of them from the earth. cry, and heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. is nigh unto them that are of a broken ; and saveth such as be of a contrite . Many are the afflictions of : but delivereth him out of them all. He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken. Evil shall : and they that hate shall be desolate. redeemeth the of his servants: and none of them that in him shall be desolate.
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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