King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 98
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A Psalm. O sing unto a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his , and his arm, hath gotten him the victory. hath his : his hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen. He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the : all the ends of the earth have seen the of our . Make a joyful noise unto , all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing . Sing unto with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm. With and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before , the King. Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that therein. Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together Before ; for he cometh to judge the earth: with shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
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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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