Examination of supersessionism and competition over cult and belief inherent in narratives and structures of the Hebrew Bible. While discussions over cult  places are presented in a variety of extra-biblical sources as taking place in post-exilic times, biblical narratives anachronistically place a north-south competition in a pre-exilic divided Israel, mirrored against the ideal Israel of David (and Solomon), in which Jerusalem plays the role as 'the place Yahweh has chosen'.