Obviously, something has to happen to make Thor leave the people he has just assumed
kingship over, and later be found by the Guardians of the Galaxy.
This remarkable section on David's full accession to political
kingship over the tribes of Israel and the land of Canaan is summed up and also favorably judged in the words of II 8:15:
Not exact matches
The current wave of dystopian young adult fiction, for example, serves the same kind of public liturgical function for progressive individualism as the New Year liturgy of Marduk's victory
over Tiamat once did for a strong Babylonian
kingship.
What Elisha says to the young man is this: «Lead Jehu to an inner chamber, anoint him with the oil of
kingship, and say to him, «Thus says the Lord, I anoint you king
over Israel,» then flee, do not tarry.»
In its most elemental meaning the kingdom of God means
kingship, the just, righteous, and loving rule of God
over his world.
This kingly rule is not a kingdom in the sense of a particular realm that is ruled
over; it is the
kingship or sovereignty of God
over all.
The Gideon story culminates in a refusal of the Israelites» offer of
kingship: «I will not rule
over you, and my son will not rule
over you; the LORD will rule
over you» (Judges 8:23).
Since the
kingship was historically a projection of the rule of the Judges, it was inevitable that an ideal of the finality of power should carry
over into the conduct of the kings.
In the tradition itself the «Alenu prayer (which Solomon Schechter called the Jewish «Marseillaise») has this: ``... in hope we wait, O Lord our God,... for Thee to remove the idols from the earth, the no - gods being utterly cut down, to taqqen «olam bemalkhut Shaddai set the world right by the Almighty's
kingship...» The prayer ends in two verses from Scripture: «The Lord shall reign for ever and ever» (Exodus 15:18) and «And the Lord shall be king
over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one» (Zechariah 14:9).