The kings were commissioned by God and responsible to Him, but they
tended to sublimate the irresponsibility into a divine right granted without obligation and to regard their anointing as demanding of them a merely cultic acknowledgment of YHVH's
kingship.
In all this, too, it is possible to discern the traits of
kingship in the portrait of man, expressed not only through the naming ritual but also in the ancient cultic symbolism of the
tending and watering of the tree of life, a sacral duty of the king.