Explore the mystery of the Queen of Sheba, who visited King Solomon in the Bible. Learn about the evolution of her legend in ancient and medieval texts like the Qur'an and Kebra Nagast and works by ...

We read in 1 Kings (10:1-2, 10-11): Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with hard questions. She came to Jerusalem with a ...

Within the Muslim tradition, it is the king and prophet Suleiman (Solomon) who hears of the queen. He admonishes her to reject the pagan worship of the sun to embrace the one true god, Allah.

And King Solomon gave unto the Queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her ...

The story of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba appears in the biblical books of Kings and Chronicles: An unnamed queen from Sheba travels to Jerusalem bearing gold, jewels, and spices. A seeker ...

This is English artist Edward John Poynter’s depiction of the Queen of Sheba’s first appearance in the court of King Solomon. Poynter lived from 1836-1919.

Jerusalem, the Kingdom of Israel Circa 950 BC, the Queen Makeda of Ethiopia, AKA the Queen of Sheba, asked King Solomon to teach her statecraft. However, King Solomon has other ideas in mind to ...

The Queen of Sheba is a holy figure to some; a demon in disguise to others. ... A 19th-century painting by Giovanni Demin depicting the Queen of Sheba visiting King Solomon.

King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, from The History of the True Cross by Piero della Francesca (Public domain) “Although the scripts have the same distant ancestor, ...

Feb. 10—It is much more than a legend in Ethiopia. It's accepted as a historical fact that when the Queen of Sheba traveled to Jerusalem to meet King Solomon and give him gifts, she became ...