King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 5
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To the upon Nehiloth, . Give ear to my words, O , consider my . unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my : for unto thee will I . My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O ; in the morning will I direct my unto thee, and will look up. For thou art not a that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil with thee. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of . Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: will abhor the bloody and deceitful man. But as for me, I will come into thy house in of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I toward thy temple. Lead me, O , in thy because of mine ; make thy way straight before . For there is no in their ; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open ; they flatter with their . Destroy thou them, O ; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in of their ; for they have rebelled against thee. But let all those that put their in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee. For thou, , wilt ; with wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
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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