Crossword-Solution: ILU 3 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 3

According to Renan, evidences that the monotheism of the Semitic races was of a very early origin, appears in the fact that all their names for deity--El, Elohim, Ilu, Baal, Bel, Adonai, Shaddai, and Allah--denote one being and that supreme.

Yahu-bid (or Ilu-bid), king of Hamath--a usurper like Sargon himself--had rebelled, and had persuaded the cities of Arpad Zimira, Damascus, and Samaria to cast in their lot with his, and to form a confederacy, by which it was imagined that effectual resistance might be offered to the Assyrian arms.

This is the period at which the name _Yauᵐ-ilu_, 'Jah is god', is found, together with references to _ilu_ as the name for the one great god, and is also, roughly, the date of Abraham, who, it may be noted, was a Babylonian of Ur of the Chaldees."[189] In one of the hymns Merodach is addressed as follows:-- Who shall escape from before thy power? Thy will is an eternal mystery! Thou makest it plain in heaven And in the earth, Command the sea And the sea obeyeth thee.

Sumu-la-ilu attacked and captured Kish, but did not slay Bunutakhtunila, its king, who became his vassal.

Under the overlordship of Sumu-la-ilu, the next ruler of Kish, whose name was Immerum, gave prominence to the public worship of Shamash.