Gaza

A⁷ leopard in Hebron leaped upon the dog, and I caught it by the tail, and flung it from me, and it was dashed to pieces in the coasts of Gaza.

A⁸nd then the Queen sent him away in peace. And the young man [and his retinue] made straight their way and they journeyed on and came into the country of the neighbourhood of Gaza. Now this is the Gaza which Solomon the King gave to the Queen of Ethiopia.

A²nd they made obeisance to him, and they said unto him, " Hail, the royal father liveth! " And they brought unto him gifts and offerings, fatted cattle and food, as to their king. And [the people of] the whole country of Gaza, as far as the border of Judah, were stirred up and they said, " This is King Solomon."

A¹nd they halted by Gaza, the city of the mother of the king, which Solomon the king had given to the Queen of Ethiopia when she came to him. And from there they came in one day to the border of Gebes (Egypt), the name of which is " Mesrin."

A⁸nd the King and his soldiers marched quickly, and they came to Gaza. And the King asked the people, saying, " When did my son leave you? " And they answered and said unto him, " He left us three days ago. And having loaded their wagons none of them travelled on the ground, but in wagons that were suspended in the air; and they were swifter than the eagles that are in the sky, and all their baggage travelled with them in wagons above the winds.

A⁵nd thus the eastern boundary of the kingdom of the King of Ethiopia is the beginning of the city of Gaza in the land of Judah, that is, Jerusalem; and its boundary is the Lake of Jericho, and it passeth on by the coast of its sea to Leba and Saba; and its boundary goeth down to Bisis and 'Asnet; and its boundary is the Sea of the Blacks and Naked Men, and goeth up Mount Kebercneyon into the Sea of Darkness, that is to say, the place where the sun setteth; and its boundary extendeth to Fene'el and Lasifala; and its borders are the lands [near] the Garden (i.e.