Saul, the son of Elkanah, from the…

Mu, the fifth sovereign of the Chinese Zhou, or Chou, Dynasty, comes into power in about 1023 BCE after the death of his father King Zhao during his tour to the South.

King Ashur-nirari IV of Assyria had succeeded his father Shalmaneser II in 1019 BCE, and reigned for six years, until 1013 BCE, when he is succeeded by his uncle Ashur-rabi II.

Almost nothing is known about his brief reign beyond this.

The Solomonic Israel of the Hebrew scriptures, untroubled by major wars or internal revolts, builds a strong military and forms a number of foreign alliances, especially with Egypt and the Phoenicians, to fully exploit the economic possibilities of empire.

Jerusalem is at this time is known as Jebus and its independent Canaanite inhabitants at this time are known as Jebusites, according to the Hebrew scriptures; the Israelite history of the city begins in about 1000 BCE, with King David's sack of Jerusalem, following which Jerusalem becomes the City of David and capital of the United Kingdom of Israel.

The Jebusites, according to the Books of Samuel, managed to resist attempts by the Israelites to capture the city, and by the time of King David were mocking such attempts, claiming that even the blind and lame could defeat the Israelite army.

The Masoretic Text (the authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the Tanakh for Rabbinic Judaism) for the Books of Samuel states that David managed to capture the city by stealth, sending his forces through a "water shaft" and attacking the city from the inside.

Archaeologists now view this as implausible, as the Gihon spring—the only known location from which water shafts lead into the city—is now known to have been heavily defended (and hence an attack via this route would have been obvious rather than secretive).

There was another king in Jerusalem, Araunah, during, and possibly before, David's control of the city, according to the biblical narrative, who was probably the Jebusite king of Jerusalem.

The city, which at that point stood upon the Ophel, was, according to the biblical account, expanded to the south, and declared by David to be the capital city of the Kingdom of Israel.

David also, according to the Books of Samuel, constructed an altar at the location of a threshing floor he had purchased from Araunah; a portion of biblical scholars view this as an attempt by the narrative's author to give an Israelite foundation to a preexisting sanctuary.

King Solomon, according to the biblical narrative, built a more substantive temple, the Temple of Solomon, at a location which the Book of Chronicles equates with David's altar.

The Temple became a major cultural center in the region; eventually, particularly after religious reforms such as those of Hezekiah and of Josiah, the Jerusalem temple became the main place of worship, at the expense of other, formerly powerful, ritual centers, such as Shiloh and Bethel.

Solomon is also described as having created several other important building works at Jerusalem, including the construction of his palace, and the construction of the Millo (the identity of which is somewhat controversial).

However, archaeologists have found no major building works at Jerusalem dating from this era (except perhaps the Large Stone Structure—the name given to the remains of a large public building in the City of David neighborhood of central Jerusalem, south of the Old City, tentatively dated to tenth to ninth century BCE—which is the subject of some controversy), and some have suggested that Solomon's building program was somewhat mythical—being based on the building program of the later Omrides.

David finally defeats the Amalekites, a nomadic tribe, listed in Genesis 36:12 as descended from Esau, who have been more or less constant enemies of Israel.

Numerous revolts, two led by his own sons, plague the latter part of David's reign.

In one of them, his son Absalom raises a rebel army against him, forcing David to take refuge in the rugged and fertile highlands of Gilead, east of the Jordan and northeast of the Dead Sea.

Absalom fails in his attempt and, while fleeing, is caught by his long hair in a tree, then killed by Joab, the commander of David’s loyalist forces.

David’s counselor Ahithopel, who had joined Absalom’s revolt, hangs himself.

Osorkon the Elder, the son of Shoshenq, the Great Chief of the Ma by the latter's wife Mehtenweskhet who is given the prestigious title of King's Mother in a document, in 992 BCE becomes the fifth king of the twenty-first dynasty of Egypt; he is the first pharaoh of Libyan extraction in Egypt.

The Philistine cities of the Pentapolis are ruled by seranim (“lords”) until after the Philistines are finally defeated in the tenth century by David, according to the Bible, when the seranim are replaced by kings.

The reign of King Zhao, which had begun, supposedly, in 996 BCE, has occurred at a point when the Zhou Dynasty had expanded across the Zhouyuan or central plains of China and turned its attention to South China.

In 977, Zhao is killed and his campaigning army wiped out south of the Han river, establishing the limit of direct control of the south during the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Zhao’s son Mu succeeds him as the fifth sovereign of the Zhou Dynasty.

The early Western Zhou supports a strong military split into two major units: “The Six Armies of the West” and “The Eight Armies of Chengzhou”.

The armies campaigns in the northern Loess Plateau, modern Ningxia and the Huanghe floodplain.

The military prowess of Zhou peaks during the nineteenth year of King Zhao's reign, when the Six Armies are wiped out along with King Zhao on a campaign around the Han River.

Ashur-rabi II, one of the longest-reigning kings of Assyria, has reigned for forty-one years.

Little is known about his reign, of which few records survive.

He was apparently a younger son of Ashurnasirpal I.

He had become king in 1013 BCE following the reigns of his elder brother, Shalmaneser II, and his nephew Ashur-nirari IV, and reigns until his death in 972 BCE, when he is succeeded by his son Ashur-resh-ishi II.