World English Bible · The united kingdom
Psalms 66
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. A song. A Psalm. Make a joyful shout to , all the earth! Sing to the of his name! Offer and ! Tell , "How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your , your submit themselves to you. All the earth will you, and will sing to you; they will sing to your name." . Come, and see deeds— awesome work on behalf of the children of men. He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There, we rejoiced in him. He rules by his might . His eyes watch the nations. Don't let the rebellious rise up against him. . our , you peoples! Make the sound of his heard, who preserves our life among the living, and doesn't allow our feet to be moved. For you, , have us. You have refined us, as silver is refined. You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs. You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance. I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my to you, which my promised, and my spoke, when I was in distress. I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, with the of rams, I will offer bulls with goats. . Come and hear, all you who . I will declare what he has done for . I cried to him with my . He was extolled with my . If I cherished in , wouldn't have listened. But most certainly, has listened. He has heard the voice of my . be , who has not turned away my , nor his from me.
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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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