World English Bible · The united kingdom
Psalms 72
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By . , give the king your ; your to the royal son. He will judge your people with , and your with . The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of . He will judge of the people. He will the children of , and will break the oppressor in pieces. They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations. He will come down like on the mown grass, as that water the earth. In his days, shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more. He shall also from sea to sea, from to the ends of the earth. Those who in shall bow before him. His shall lick . The kings of and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of and shall offer gifts. Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall him. For he will when he cries; , who has no helper. He will have on and needy. He will the of . He will their from and . Their will be precious in his sight. He will live; and gold will be given to him. Men will for him continually. They will him all day long. Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like . Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field. His name endures . His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be by him. All nations will call him . be to , the of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds. be his name ! Let the whole earth be filled with his ! and . This ends the prayers by , the son 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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