The Psalm is Elohistic. Possibly the Phoenician name for God, Elioun, was used in order to set "El" above it. Or it may be that as Solomon had been declared "Elyôn of Kings" (Psalm lxxxix. 27) it was important to recall that he at the same time said, "My Elohim," and to place "El" before his title. This conjecture is warranted by the fact that in both of the Psalms, and in the corresponding passages, God is spoken of as a "Rock." There are other resemblances between the two Psalms, one very striking: Psalm lxxviii. 70--"He chose David also, his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds." Psalm lxxxix. 19, 20--"I have raised one elected out of the people; I have discovered David, my servant." The Psalm in which the Septuagint personalises malki'-tzedek (cx.) into "Melchizedek" is a fragmentary little piece, with two incomprehensible verses at the end which seem to allude to some legend or folklore now lost. These verses (6 and 7) are incongruous with the preceding ones and must be detached, and perhaps verse 5 also, as this seems an anti-climax. These closing verses look as if they may have been added by some admirer of Joshua's slaughter of kings, and it is probable that the legend of Joshua's making his captains tread on the necks of the five kings (Joshua x.) was developed out of the opening verse of this Psalm: "Jahveh said to my lord [Adonai], Sit thou at my right hand, Until I make thine enemies thy footstool." The leader of these kings was Adonai-Zedek, who, like Melchizedek, was King of Jerusalem; they are certainly mythical relatives, their names meaning "Lord of Justice" and "King of Justice." It is philologically impossible that any persons with those proper names could have existed in Jerusalem before the invasion of the Hebrews. And "Adonai-bezek," the "radiant lord," whose thumbs and toes Joshua cut off when he captured Jerusalem, is a transparent variant of Adonai-zedek. When the city, originally named Jebus, began to be called Salem (see Psalm lxxvi. 2), the aboriginal people who continued to dwell there might naturally dream of their ancient kings, as the Welch and Bretons so long did of Arthur, "flower of kings," and perhaps similarly expect their return to restore their ancient freedom; and it may have become a useful political device to find beyond the ugly legends of Joshua's cruelty to their "just" and "shining" lords a prettier one, made out of an old song, of an earlier "King of Justice," whose bread and wine Abraham had eaten, to whom he had paid tithes, whose deity, El Elyôn, the father of Israel had recognized as his own, and with whom he had made a treaty of salem, or peace,--Jebus thus becoming Jebus-Salem (Jerusalem).