World English Bible · The united kingdom
Psalms 34
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By ; when he pretended to be insane before , who drove him away, and he departed. at all times. His will always be in my . shall boast in . The humble shall hear of it and be glad. Oh magnify with me. Let's exalt his name together. I sought , and he answered me, and me from all my fears. They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with . This man cried, and heard him, and him out of all his troubles. encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them. Oh taste and see that is good. is the man who takes refuge in him. Oh , you his , for there is no lack with those who fear him. The young lions do lack, and suffer , but those who seek shall not lack any good thing. Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the . Who is someone who life, and loves many days, that he may see good? Keep your from evil, and your from speaking lies. Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it. eyes are toward . His ears listen to their cry. is against those who do evil, to their memory from the earth. cry, and hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. is near to those who have a broken , and saves those who have a crushed . Many are the afflictions of , but delivers him out of them all. He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken. Evil shall kill . Those who hate shall be condemned. redeems the of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.
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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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