King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 84
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To the upon , A Psalm for the sons of . How amiable are thy tabernacles, O ! longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of : and my crieth out for the living . Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine , O , my King, and my . are they that in thy house: they will be still praising thee. . is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose are the ways of them. Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the also filleth the pools. They go from strength to strength, every one of them in appeareth before . 8O of hosts, hear my : give ear, O of . . Behold, O our shield, and look upon the of thine . For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my , than to in the tents of wickedness. For is a sun and shield: will give and : no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. O , is the man that trusteth in thee.
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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