# Menyelek

Source: https://enocharchive.com/characters/menyelek (Enoch Archive).

Menyelek, known also as Bayna-Lehkem, was the son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. She gave birth to him nine months and five days after leaving the king, and later sent the youth to Solomon with a suitable retinue. The people who saw him thought him the perfect likeness of Solomon and treated him as their king. Solomon then had him anointed with the holy oil of kingship and made him king of Ethiopia.

The Kebra Nagast further tells how Solomon received a vision of the sun lighting Judah before departing to shine on Ethiopia without return. Menyelek carried the Ark of the Covenant to Ethiopia as he took up his rule there.

**books:** The Kebra Nagast