"... Psalm 24 ... looks back on the victory of YHWH, which implies the notion of a divine combat. YHWH, “the king of honor”, demands from the gates of his city to be let in to take up his residency again. The gates however have to check his identity: “Who is this, the king of honor?” It is possible that a foreign and hostile god prevailed on the battlefield. This may be either a cosmic adversary of the storm-god, like the sea-god Yamm, or a patron deity of a neighboring kingdom; these deities fought against YHWH time and again, as illustrated by the famous stele of the Moabite king Mesha that connects Mesha’s victory over the Israelite kingdom with the supremacy of the Moabite patron deity Chemosh over the Israelite YHWH. From the perspective of the Yahwistic cult, such divine enemies of YHWH must have been perceived as exponents of defeat, destruction and chaos. YHWH’s messenger answers the gates by proclaiming the name of the approaching king, adding a series of martial epithets: “a strong one and a warrior,” “a battle warrior.” As a climax, he proclaims the divine name “YHWH of hosts” in which YHWH ’s martial nature seems condensed. Psalm 24:10 is in all likelihood the earliest attestation of this famous divine name. It is notable that the name “YHWH of hosts” closely corresponds to a political title of the Hittite storm-god - one of the main deities of the Hittite empire - namely “Storm-god of the army” that persisted in the neo-Hittite deity name “Tarhunza of the army”; in addition, “YHWH of hosts” also resembles the name of the divine warrior “Reshef of host” that is attested in Ugarit ..."