King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 91
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He that dwelleth in the secret place of shall under the shadow of . I will say of , He is my refuge and my : my ; in him will I . Surely he shall thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his shalt thou : his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh ; nor for the that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy ; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of . Because thou hast made , which is my refuge, even , thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will him, and him. With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my .
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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