But such a scheme finds no place in the monarchy; it presupposes a hierocracy under which the priesthood increased its rights by claiming the privileges which past kings had enjoyed; it is the outcome of a complicated development in Old Testament religion in the light of which it is to be followed (
hierocracy הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד