King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 51
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To the , , when the came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath–sheba. Have mercy upon me, O , according to thy : according unto of thy blot out my . Wash me throughly from mine , and cleanse me from my . For I my : and my is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I , and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in ; and in did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know . Purge me , and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide thy from my , and blot out all mine . Create in me a clean , O ; and renew a right within me. Cast me not away from thy ; and take not thy from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy ; and uphold me with thy free . Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and shall be converted unto thee. me from bloodguiltiness, O , thou of my : and my shall sing aloud of thy . O , open thou my ; and my shall shew forth thy . For thou desirest not ; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The of are a broken : a broken and a contrite , O , thou wilt not despise. Do good in thy good pleasure unto : build thou the walls of . Then shalt thou be pleased with the of , with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine .
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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