The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek (Kebra Nagast)

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Këbra Nagast Saviour would come (Chap. 69), and the Angel replied, “After three and thirty generations.” When the Angel told him that the Israelites would crucify the Saviour, and be scattered over the face of the earth, Solomon wept, and the words of his lamentations fill the rest of Chap. 69. Solomon died, and Zadok anointed Rehoboam king, and when he had laid a wooden tablet,27 with Solomon’s name inserted upon it, upon the Tabernacle, the people set him on the royal mule and cried, “Hail! Long live the royal father” (Chap. 70). Owing to Rehoboam’s arrogant behaviour the people revolted, and they armed themselves and went to Bêth Efrâtâ, and made Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, king over them. From Rehoboam to Joachim, the grandfather of Christ, were forty one generations. The Virgin Mary and Joseph the carpenter were akin, each being descended from David, King of Israel (Chap. 71). According to traditions which Isaac has grouped in Chap. 72, Rôm, Rômê, or Rûm, i.e. Byzantium, was originally the inheritance of Japhet, the son of Noah. He attributes the building of Antioch, Tyre, Parthia (?) and Constantinople (?) to Darius, and says that from Darius to Solomon there were eighteen generations. One of his descendants, an astrologer and clockmaker called Zanbarês, prophesied that Byzantium would pass into the possession of the sons of Shem. His daughter married Solomon, who begot by her a son called Adrâmî, and this son married ≤Adlônyâ, the daughter of Bal†asôr, the King of Byzantium. When ≤Adrâmî was living in Byzantium with his wife, his father-in-law, wishing to test his ability as a judge, set him to try a difficult case of trespass on the part of a flock of sheep on the one side and unlawful detention of property on the other (Chap. 72). He decided the case in such a way as to 27

Several examples of such wooden tablets are exhibited among the Christian Antiquities in the White Wing of the British Museum.

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Colophon

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pages 199-279

114. Concerning the Return of Zion

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page 195

Persons

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pages 191-192

107. Concerning His Entrance into Jerusalem in Glory

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pages 180-182

Enemy

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pages 193-194

105. Concerning the Belief of Abraham

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page 171

103. Concerning the Horns of the Altar

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page 167

104. More Concerning the Ark and the Talk of the Wicked

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pages 168-170

102. Concerning the Beginning

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pages 163-166

100. Concerning the Angels who Rebelled

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pages 157-161

97. Concerning the Murmuring of Israel

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pages 149-150

98. Concerning the Rod of Moses and the Rod of Aaron

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pages 151-155

96. Concerning the Prophecy about Christ

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pages 145-148

91. This is what ye shall eat: the Clean and the Unclean

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pages 136-137

93. How the Men of Rômê Destroyed the Faith

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page 139

was Universally Accepted

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pages 142-144

made him King

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pages 128-129

85. Concerning the Rejoicing of Queen Mâkëdâ

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page 124

How the Prophets Foreshadowed Him in their

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page 112

79. Concerning the King of Amalek

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page 116

77. Concerning the King of Persia

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of the Philistines

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page 119

Concerning the Chariot and the Vanquisher of the

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74. Concerning the King of Medyâm

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page 108

King of Rômê

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page 107

72. Concerning the King of Rômê (Constantinople

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pages 104-106

71. Concerning Mary, the Daughter of David

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page 103

69. Concerning the Question of Solomon

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pages 98-99

70. How Rehoboam Reigned

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How he himself Related to his Mother how they

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page 88

61. How Solomon Returned to Jerusalem

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pages 82-83

of the Gift

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page 72

58. How Solomon Rose up to Slay them

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page 74

55. How the People of Ethiopia Rejoiced

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page 71

Saluted Zion

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pages 69-70

53. How the Wagon was Given to Ethiopia

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pages 67-68

upon it (i.e. Zion) ”

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pages 64-65

Of the Return of Zadok the Priest, and the Giving

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Azariah) and the King

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page 60

48. How they Carried Away Zion

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page 61

how the City Mourned

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page 63

41. Concerning the Blessing of Kings

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pages 48-49

How Those who were Sent Away Wept and

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39. How They Made the Son of Solomon King

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with the Children of the Nobles

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page 44

How the King Planned to Send Away his Son

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How King Solomon Sent to his Son the Commander

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of his Army

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33. How the King of Ethiopia Travelled

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her own Country

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28. How Solomon Gave Commandments to the Queen

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pages 25-27

Concerning the Three Hundred and Eighteen

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30. Concerning how King Solomon Swore to the Queen

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27. Concerning the Labourer

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26. How the King Held Converse with the Queen

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25. How the Queen came to Solomon the King

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24. How the Queen Made Ready to Set Out on her Journey

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14. Concerning the Covenant of Abraham

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13. Concerning Abraham

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23. How the Merchant Returned to Ethiopia

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2. Concerning the Greatness of Kings

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and Eighteen Orthodox Fathers

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22. Concerning Tâmrîn, the Merchant

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12. Concerning Canaan

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