King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 92
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A Psalm or Song for the . It is a good thing to unto , and to sing unto thy name, O : To shew forth thy in the morning, and thy every night, Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound. For thou, , hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands. O , how great are thy works! and thy are very deep. A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this. When spring as the grass, and when all the workers of do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever: But thou, , art for evermore. For, lo, thine , O , for, lo, thine shall ; all the workers of shall be scattered. But my shalt thou exalt like of an unicorn: I shall be with fresh oil. Mine eye also shall see my on mine , and mine ears shall hear my of that rise up against me. shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in . Those that be planted in the shall flourish in the courts of our . They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; To shew that is upright: he is , and there is no unrighteousness in him.
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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