Solomon

A⁶nd there reigned in Saba sixty of the daughters of Saba. And for many years women reigned in Sába—until the kingdom of Solomon, the son of David. And the children of Ophir, that is, Send (Scindia?), appointed to be their Lophoron (?), who built Ophir with stones of gold; now, all the stones that are in Ophir are of gold.

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A⁵nd that the righteous man Lot might not be reviled because he slept with his daughters, God granted that the royal succession might be maintained by the seed of both, and that Christ should be born of the seed of Lot and Abraham. And from the seed of Ruth, the Moabitess, Obed was born, and from Obed, Jesse, and from Jesse, David, and from David, Solomon; these are the descendants of Ruth, the Moabitess, the daughter of Lot. And of Na’má (Naamah, I Kings xiv. 21), the Ammonitess, another daughter of Lot, whom Solomon took to wife, was born Rehoboam, who reigned after Solomon.

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N¹ow Solomon married many wives, seven hundred free-born women, and three hundred concubines; and of the thousand women which he took to wife, he had no son except from Naamah, the Ammonitess. And why was it that God did not give him a son from these [others]? It was in order to prevent the wicked seed of the Canaanites, and Jebusites, and Amorites, and Hittites, and Gergasites, and the seed of the peoples whom God hated, from mingling in the succession of the genealogy of Jesus Christ.

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H⁷e came nigh and reviled Israel, and blasphemed against God, and David, the son of Jesse, killed him. And David was praised in songs by the daughters of Israel, and Saul persecuted him. And the Philistines slew Saul because he forsook the Lord, and took refuge with the devils. David reigned over the children of Israel forty years, and Solomon, his son, reigned forty years.

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A¹nd Solomon waxed exceedingly great. And the food [provided for his table every day] consisted of forty oxen, one hundred head of sheep, thirty measures of fine flour, sixty measures of wheat, and three hundred measures of wine; and besides all this, stags, and gazelle, and wild antelopes, and other creatures of the desert.

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A¹nd Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, reigned after him. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when [he began] to reign, and he polluted Jerusalem with fornication, and the altars of devils, and the stink of heathendom; and the kingdom of Israel was rent in twain. And in the fifth year of his kingdom Shishak, the king of Egypt, went up against Jerusalem.

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A¹nd after seven years the children of Jerusalem considered whom they should make their king, and Jehoiada the priest gathered them together in the house of the Lord, in the temple which Solomon had built. And when the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds had gathered together, Jehoiada the priest said unto them, “Whom say ye shall be king and sit upon the throne of David except [he be] a king and the son of a king?”

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J¹⁷udah begot Pars (Pharez) by Tamar. Pharez begot Hezron. Hezron begot Aram. Aram begot Amminadab. Amminadab begot Nahshén (Nahasson). Nahasson begot Salmon. Salmon begot Boaz, by Rahab. Boaz took to wife Ruth, the daughter of Lot, and begot Obed. Obed begot Jesse. Jesse begot David the king. David took to wife Bathsheba, and begot by her Solomon.

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A¹nd know thou also that Christ dwelt in Mary, and suffered in Nazareth, and was born in Bethlehem, and was laid in a manger, and was carried by Simeon in the Temple of Solomon, and was reared in Galilee, and was anointed by Mary Magdalene, and ate the Passover in the house of Nicodemus, the brother of Joseph of Rametha, and was bound in the house of Hannan, and was struck with a reed in the house of Caiaphas, and embraced the pillar and was scourged with a whip in the Pratorium of Pilate, and on Friday, on the first day of Nisán (April), on the fourteenth day of the moon, our Redeemer suffered.

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f²rom Isaac to Jacob; from Jacob to Judah; from Judah to Pharez; from Pharez to Hesron; from Hesron to Aram; from Aram to Amminadab; from Amminadab to Nahasson; from Nahasson to Salmon; from Salmon to Boaz; from Boaz to Obed; from Obed to Jesse; from Jesse to David; from David to Solomon; from Solomon to Rehoboam; from Rehoboam to Abijah; from Abijah to Ara; from Ara to Jehoshaphat; from Jeshoshaphat to Joram; from Joram to Ahaziah;

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F²or both of them are of the seed of Shem, the son of Noah, the seed of Abraham, the seed of David, the children of Solomon. For God gave the seed of Shem glory because of the blessing of their father Noah. The Emperor of Rom is the son of Solomon, and the Emperor of Ethiopia is the firstborn and eldest son of Solomon.

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A⁵nd Solomon was working at the building of the House of God, and he rose up and went to the right and to the left, and forward and backward. And he showed the workmen the measurement and weight and the space covered [by the materials], and he told the workers in metal how to use the hammer, and the drill, and the chisel (?), and he showed the stone-masons the angle [measure] and the circle and the surface [measure].

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A¹nd Solomon answered and said unto her, " I swear unto thee that I will not take thee by force, but thou must swear unto me that thou wilt not take by force anything that is in my house." And the Queen laughed and said unto him, " Being a wise man why dost thou speak as a fool?

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A¹nd Solomon the King sent the commander of his army, on whose hand he was wont to lean, with gifts and meat and drink to entertain that traveller. And the commander set out with a great number of wagons, and he came to Bayna Lehkem, and embraced him, and gave him everything that Solomon the King had sent unto him.

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A²nd those who were on the right hand should sit in the same way as their fathers sat with King Solomon, even so should they sit at the right hand of his son David, the King of Ethiopia; and those who were on the left hand should sit as their fathers sat with King Solomon, even so should they sit on the left hand of his son David, the King of Ethiopia; and their rank should be like that of their fathers, and their names should be like those of their fathers.

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A¹nd Zadok the priest went and gave David the covering of Zion, and he delivered unto him all the commands which Solomon had spoken. And David, the son of Solomon, rejoiced because of this, and he marvelled and held himself to be blessed exceedingly, and said, when the covering of the Tabernacle of the Law of God was committed to his charge, " This shall be to me my Lady."

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A¹nd Solomon left that place, and he met a noble of the nobles of Egypt, whom King Pharaoh had sent unto him with a gift; and there was an abundance of treasures with him, and he came and made obeisance to the King. And Solomon the King made haste to question him, even before he had presented his gift and embassy, and said unto him, " Hast thou seen men of Ethiopia fleeing by this road? " And the ambassador of Pharaoh answered and said unto the King, " O King, live for ever!

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A¹nd then the daughter of Pharaoh appeared before Solomon, and said unto him, " It is good to worship the gods like my father and all the kings of Egypt who were before my father." And Solomon answered and said unto her, " They call gods the things which have been made by the hands of the worker in metal, and the carpenter, and the potter, and the painter, and the hewer in stone, and the sculptor; these are not gods, but the work of the hand of man, in gold, and silver, in brass and lead, in iron and earthenware, and in stone, and ye call ' our gods ' the things that are not your gods.

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A¹nd Solomon turned and looked at the Angel and stretched out both his hands, and said, " My lord, is the coming of the Saviour of which thou speakest near or far off? " And the Angel answered and said unto him, " He will come three and thirty generations from thy kin and from thy seed and will deliver you.

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A¹nd the Queen said unto her nobles: " Speak ye now, and swear ye by the heavenly Zion that ye will not make women queens or set them upon the throne of the kingdom of Ethiopia, and that no one except the male seed of David, the son of Solomon the King, shall ever reign over Ethiopia, and that ye will never make women queens."

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T⁹hus Elijah the Prophet prophesied and said, " With a new covenant shall God come unto us." Thus Joel the Prophet prophesied and said, " The heavenly Emmanuel shall come and shall deliver the work which He hath fashioned with His own hand from the hand of the Devil, the deceiver, and his devils which lead astray." Thus David the Prophet prophesied and said, " The God of gods shall show Himself in Zion. The people say out of Zion, A man is born therein, and He the Most High hath founded it." Thus Solomon his son prophesied and said, " Verily God shall be with men, and He shall walk about upon the earth." Thus his father David prophesied and said, " He shall come down like the dew upon wool, and like the drop which droppeth upon the earth, and righteousness shall spring into being in his days." Thus Solomon his son prophesied and said, " A Saviour shall be born out of Zion, and He shall remove sin from Jacob." Thus Hosea the Prophet prophesied and said, " I will come to thee, O Zion, and I will walk about in thee, Jerusalem, saith God, the Holy One of Israel." Thus Micah the Prophet prophesied and said, " The Word of God shall appear in Jerusalem, and the Law shall go forth from Zion." Thus Hosea the Prophet prophesied and said, "God shall appear upon the earth, and shall dwell with men like us." Thus Jeremiah the Prophet prophesied and said, " A saviour shall be sent from Zion, and He shall remove sin from the people of Israel."

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A⁴nd for love's sake they were to have jointly the royal title [of King of Ethiopia]. They were to be mingled with David and Solomon their fathers. The one whom in faith they chose by lot to be named from the Kings of Rome was to be called " King of Ethiopia," and the King of Rome likewise was to bear the name of " King of Ethiopia," and he was to have part in the lot whereby he should be named with David and Solomon their fathers, after the manner of the Four Evangelists.

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A²¹nd the descent of the Beloved into Sheol, behold, it is written in the section, where the Lord says: ‘Behold, my Son will understand.’ And all these things, behold they are written in the Psalms in the parables of David, the son of Jesse, and in the Proverbs of Solomon his son, and in the words of Korah, and Ethan the Israelite, and in the words of Asaph, and in the rest of the Psalms also which the angel of the Spirit inspired,

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