Similarly, another text (6.8, 35–36) in the same work affirms that ‘after Ea … had created mankind … they had imposed the service of the gods upon them’ for the purpose that the gods ‘may be at rest’. Consequently, ‘in the Ancient Near East as in the Bible, temples are for divine “rest”, and divine rest is found in sanctuaries or sacred space’ (Walton 2001: 151).86 The pagan religious material suggests further that after God overcame chaos and created the world and after he overcame Israel’s enemies