World English Bible · The united kingdom
Psalms 92
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A Psalm. A song for the . It is a good thing to to , to sing to your name, , to proclaim your in the morning, and your every night, with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre. For you, , have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands. How great are your works, ! Your are very deep. A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this: though spring up as the grass, and all the flourish, they will be . But you, , are on high more. For behold, your , , for behold, your shall . All the will be scattered. But you have exalted my like that of the wild ox. I am with fresh oil. My eye has also seen . My ears have heard of who rise up against me. shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in . They are planted in house. They will flourish in our courts. They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green, to show that is upright. He is , and there is no unrighteousness in him.
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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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