Their gods are gods of the hills. The local power and influence of deities was a fixed principle of ancient polytheism. Each country was c…

Gods of the hills. —The idea of tutelary gods, whose strength was greatest on their own soil, is naturally common in polytheistic …

It was a current heathenish idea that there was one god for a mountain, another for a stream, another for a plain; and these men imagined that the …

And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him
His ministers of state, his privy counsellors: