"It is only on the march and in time of war," says Robertson Smith in The Prophets of Israel, "that a nomad people feels any urgent need of a central authority, and so it came about that in the first beginnings of national organization, centring in the sanctuary of the ark, Israel was thought of mainly as the host of Jehovah.
"Ibilaldian eta gerra-denboran-dio Robertson Smith-ek, The Prophets of Israel, lect. I-sentitu zuen bat-batean herri nomada horrek agintaritza zentralaren beharra eta, horrela, kutxaren saindutegiaren inguruko antolakuntza nazionalaren hasiera-hasieran, Israelek Yahveh-ren oztea zela uste izan zuen.