[1644] Dorsey, The Skidi Pawnee, Index, s.v. Dreams.
[1645] Ellis, Tshi, p. 90
[1646] Breasted, History of Egypt, p. 468, and see p. 558.
[1647] Gen. xi f.
[1648] Jastrow, Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, p. 349 f.
[1649] Gen. xx, 3; xxviii, 12; xxxi, 11; xxxvii, 5.
[1650] Dan. ii, iv.
[1651] Iliad, ii, 1 ff. So Yahweh, by a lying spirit, sends Ahab to his death (1 Kings, xxii, 19 ff.) and deceives the prophet, who misleads the people (Ezek. xiv, 9). The theory of these ancient writers was that a deity, like an earthly king, had a right to use any means to gain his ends.
[1652] Cf. article "Oneiros" in Roscher's Lexikon.
[1653] 1 Sam. xxviii, 6. The other means used, it is said, were the urim (urim and thummim) and prophets. These all failing, the king had recourse to necromancy.