“Such is the practice, mentioned many times in the book, of keeping a king prisoner throughout his entire lifetime, allowing him to beget and raise a family in captivity, even though the sons thus brought up would be almost sure to seek vengeance for their parent and power for themselves upon coming of age. … It seems to us a perfectly ridiculous system, yet it is in accordance with the immemorial Asiatic usage” (Nibley, Lehi in the Desert, 207–8).