World English Bible · The united kingdom
Psalms 51
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. A Psalm by , when the came to him, after he had gone in to . Have mercy on me, , according to your . According to of your , blot out my . Wash me thoroughly from my . Cleanse me from my . For I know my . My is constantly before me. Against you, and you only, I have , and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and when you judge. Behold, I was born in . My mother conceived me in . Behold, you truth in the inward parts. You teach me in the inmost place. Purify me , and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice. Hide your from my , and blot out all of my . Create in me a clean , O . Renew a right within me. Don't throw me from your , and don't take your from me. Restore to me the joy of your . Uphold me with a willing . Then I will teach transgressors your ways. will be converted to you. me from the of , O , the of my . My will sing aloud of your . , open my . My will declare your . For you don't delight in , or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering. The of are a broken . O , you will not despise a broken and contrite . Do well in your good pleasure to . Build the walls of . Then you will delight in the of , in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your .
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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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