World English Bible · The united kingdom
Psalms 7
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A by , which he sang to , concerning the words of , the . , my , I take refuge in you. me from all those who pursue me, and me, lest they tear apart like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to . , my , if I have done this, if there is in my hands, if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have plundered him who without cause was my adversary), let pursue , and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my in . . Arise, , in your . Lift up yourself against the rage of my . Awake for me. You have commanded . Let of the peoples surround you. them on high. administers to the peoples. Judge me, , according to my , and to my integrity that is in me. Oh let the wickedness of come to an end, but establish ; their and are searched by . My shield is with , who saves the upright in . is a judge, yes, a who has every day. If a man doesn't , he will sharpen his ; he has bent and strung his bow. He has also prepared for himself the instruments of . He makes ready his flaming arrows. Behold, he travails with . Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood. He has dug a hole, and has fallen into which he made. The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His shall come down on the of his own head. I will to according to his , and will sing to the name of .
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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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