King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 50
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A Psalm of . The mighty , even , hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. Out of , the perfection of beauty, hath shined. Our shall come, and shall not keep silence: a shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. He shall call to from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. Gather my together unto me; those that have made a with me by . And shall declare his : for is judge himself. . Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am , even thy . I will not reprove thee for thy or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. 13Will I eat of bulls, or drink of goats? Offer unto ; and pay thy unto : And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will thee, and thou shalt me. But unto saith, What hast thou to do to declare , or that thou shouldest take my in thy ? Seeing thou hatest , and castest my words behind thee. When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with . Thou givest thy to evil, and thy frameth deceit. Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son. These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. Now consider this, ye that forget , lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to . Whoso offereth glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the of .
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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