162 That the king was not necessarily succeeded by his eldest son is proved by the case of Solomon, who on his accession executed his elder brother Adoni-jah (1 Kings ii. 22-24). Similarly, when Abimelech became king of Shechem, he put his seventy brothers in ruthless oriental fashion to death. See Judges viii. 29-31, ix. 5 _sq._, 18. So on his accession Jehoram, King of Judah, put all his brothers to the sword (2 Chronicles xxi. 4). King Rehoboam had eighty-eight children (2 Chronicles xi. 21) and King Abi-jah had thirty-eight (2 Chronicles xiii. 21). These examples illustrate the possible size of the family of a polygamous king. _ 163 The Dying God_, pp. 160 _sqq._ 164 The names which imply that a man was the father of a god have proved particularly puzzling to some eminent Semitic scholars. See W. Robertson Smith, _Religion of the Semites_,2 p. 45, note 2; Th. Nöldeke, _s.v._ “Names,” _Encyclopaedia Biblica_, iii. 3287 _sqq._; W. W. Graf Baudissin, _Adonis und Esmun_, pp. 39 _sq._, 43 _sqq._ Such names are Abi-baal (“father of Baal”), Abi-el (“father of El”), Abi-jah (“father of Jehovah”), and Abi-melech (“father of a king” or “father of Moloch”). On the hypothesis put forward in the text the father of a god and the son of a god stood precisely on the same footing, and the same person would often be both one and the other. Where the common practice prevailed of naming a father after his son (_Taboo and the Perils of the Soul_, pp. 331 _sqq._), a divine king in later life might often be called “father of such-and-such a god.” _ 165 The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings_, i. 418 _sq._ 166 A. Erman, _Aegypten und aegyptisches Leben im Altertum_ (Tübingen, N.D.), p. 113. 167 L. Borchardt, “Der ägyptische Titel ‘Vater des Gottes’ als Bezeichnung für ‘Vater oder Schwiegervater des Königs,’ ” _Berichte über die Verhandlungen der Königlich Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Philolog.-histor. Klasse_, lvii. (1905) pp. 254-270. M34 Cinyras, like King David, a harper. The use of music as a means of prophetic inspiration among the Hebrews. 168 F. C. Movers, _Die Phoenizier_, i. 243; Stoll, _s.v._ “Kinyras,” in W. H. Roscher’s _Lexikon der griech. und röm. Mythologie_, ii. 1191; 1 Samuel xvi. 23. 169 1 Chronicles xxv. 1-3; compare 2 Samuel vi. 5. 170 W. Robertson Smith, _The Prophets of Israel_2 (London, 1902), pp. 391 _sq._; E. Renan, _Histoire du peuple d’Israel_ (Paris, 1893), ii. 280. 171 1 Samuel x. 5.