"... The two oldest exemplars of the divine march appear in Judges 5:4–5 and Psalm 68:8–9. These two pieces are so close in wording that scholars have understood them to be an independent set piece or motif that the authors of Judges 5 and Psalm 68 inherited and used. In other words, the earliest manifestation of God survives only in poetic fragments; it was received and re-interpreted by later authors. The poetic lines of these two biblical contexts describe the divine march and its effects. As commentators have long noted, the precise language shared by the two passages is remarkable This usage also fits three Ugaritic attestations, all predicated of gods: (i) “Baal marched,” in KTU 1.10 III 7, preceding Baal’s ascent to his mountain (in lines 11–12); (ii) “he marched to the shore of the Deep,” in KTU 1.23.30, used to describe El’s proceeding to the shore; and (iii) “he marched” in KTU 1.174.1, perhaps involving El. It is the first of these passages about Baal marching that seems contextually proximate to the march of Yhwh with quaking mountains in Judges 5:4 and Psalm 68:8. Baal’s march from his mountain in the Baal Cycle is also to be noted in this context ..."