King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 7
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of , which he sang unto , concerning the words of the . O my , in thee do I put my : me from all them that persecute me, and me: Lest he tear like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to . O my , if I have done this; if there be in my hands; If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have him that without cause is mine enemy:) Let persecute , and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine in . . Arise, O , in thine , lift up thyself because of the rage of mine : and awake for me to the that thou hast commanded. So shall of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high. shall judge the people: judge me, O , according to my , and according to mine integrity that is in me. Oh let the wickedness of come to an end; but establish the : for trieth the and reins. My defence is of , which saveth the upright in . judgeth , and is angry with every day. If he turn not, he will whet his ; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. He hath also prepared for him the instruments of ; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. Behold, he travaileth with , and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his dealing shall come down upon his own pate. I will according to his : and will sing to the name of .
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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