The Power of Adonai

There are not a ton of examples of a localized ancestral deity that rises to the top of a national pantheon, but it has happened. And so most likely in early history of Israel after Adonai comes into the pantheon, someone begins a campaign of conflation to identify Adonai with El and elsewhere. This would allow them to have this single deity ruling over Israel who later becomes for their devotees, the only deity that has any power that has any legitimacy at all.