KAI 26.iii
Canaanite and Aramaic Inscriptions
Ancient Near East
But if any king of kings, or prince of princes, or any man who is a man of renown, should erase the name of Azatiwada from this gate and put (his own) name (on it), or even should he covet this city and tear out this gate which Azatiwada made, and make for it a different gate and put his name upon it whether he tears it out with covetousness or with hatred and evil he tears out this gate—then may Baʿal-Shamem and El Creator-of-Earth and the eternal Sun and the entire assembly of the sons of the gods blot out that kingdom and that king and that man!
Date: 1200 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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1 Samuel 15:11
Hebrew Bible
10 Then the Lord’s message came to Samuel: 11 “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from me and has not done what I told him to do.” Samuel became angry and he cried out to the Lord all that night. 12 Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed, “Saul has gone to Carmel where he is setting up a monument for himself.” Then Samuel left and went down to Gilgal.
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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"... Though there is not a great deal of source material from Syro-Palestinian texts regarding the susceptibility of kings to divine removal, the threat of reprisal against kings for disturbing another ruler’s sarcophagus is recorded. (See KAI 26.A.III.12–IV.1; and 1:2; see 1 Samuel 15:11 as well) For better or worse, it appears that the highest authority for justice in the universe was thought to be El. Gods and humans alike could petition him for redress in moral issues ..."
Handy, Lowell K.
Among the Host of Heaven: The Syro-Palestinian Pantheon as Bureaucracy
(p. 90) Eisenbrauns, 1994
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