Endnote 8 – Portraits of Ancient Israelite Kings?

Moreover, in the ancient Semitic languages the flower-scepter appears together with the seat in word-pairs employed in poetic language which signify kingship (compare Psalms 45:7). Y. Avishur, Stylistic Studies of Word Pairs in Biblical and Ancient Semitic Literature, AOAT 210 (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1984), pp. 579–600.