King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 66
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To the , A Song or Psalm. Make a joyful noise unto , all ye lands: Sing forth the of his name: make his . Say unto , How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy shall thine submit themselves unto thee. All the earth shall thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. . Come and see the works of : he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men. He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him. He ruleth by his for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. . O our , ye people, and make the voice of his to be heard: Which holdeth our in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved. For thou, O , hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins. Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my , Which my have uttered, and my hath spoken, when I was in trouble. I will offer unto thee burnt of fatlings, with the of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. . Come and hear, all ye that , and I will declare what he hath done for . I cried unto him with my , and he was extolled with my . If I regard in , will not hear me: But verily hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my . be , which hath not turned away my , nor his mercy from me.
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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