King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 63
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, when he was in of Judah. O , thou art my ; early will I seek thee: thirsteth for thee, my longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy and thy , so as I have seen thee in . Because thy is better than life, my shall thee. Thus will I thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my shall thee with joyful : When I remember thee upon my bed, and on thee in the night watches. Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy will I rejoice. followeth hard after thee: thy upholdeth me. But those that seek , to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth. They shall fall : they shall be a for foxes. But the king shall rejoice in ; every one that sweareth by him shall : but the of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
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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