Queen of Sheba
The song of songs,
which is Solomon's
Let
him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
Because
of the sav I our of thy
good ointments
thy name is as ointment poured forth,
therefore do the virgins love thee.
Draw
me,
we will run after thee: the king
hath
brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will
remember thy love more than wine:
the upright love thee.
I
am black, but
comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Look
not
upon me, because I am black, because the sun
hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with
me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
My
bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. I went mourning without the sun:
I stood up, and I cried
in the congregation. I am a brother
to dragons, and a companion to owls.
My
skin is black upon me,
and my bones ah
burned with heat. My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where
thou feedest,
where thou makest thy
flock to rest at noon:
for why should I
be as one
that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
If
thou know not, O
thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.
I
have compared thee, O my love, to a company of
horses in Pharaoh's chariots.
Thy
cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with
chains of gold.
We
will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
While
the king sitteth at his table, my
spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
After
An
and Enlil had turned over the Kingship
of Ur to Nanna, at that time did
Ur-Nammu, son born of Ninsun,
for
his beloved mother who bore
him,
in
accordance with his principles
of equity and truth... Then did Ur-Nammu
the mighty warrior, king of Ur, king of Sumer and Akkad, by the might of Nanna, lord of the city,
and in accordance with the true word of Utu, establish equity in
the land; he banished malediction, violence and strife, and
set the monthly Temple expenses at 90
gur of barley, 30 sheep, and 30 sila of butter.
A
bundle
of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
My
beloved is unto me as
a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
And when the queen of Sheba
And when the queen of
Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning
the
name of the Lord, she
came to prove him with hard questions. And she came to Jerusalem with a very
great train, with camels that bare spices,
and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she
communed with him of all that was in
her heart.
And
Solomon told her all her
questions:
there
was not any thing hid from the king,
which he told her not.
And
when the queen of Sheba had seen all
Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built,
And
the meat of his
table,
and
the sitting of his
servants,
and
the attendance of his ministers,
and
their apparel,
and
his cupbearers,
and
his ascent
by
which he went up unto the house of the Lord;
And the Spirit
of God moved upon the face of the
waters.
there
w-as no more spirit in her.
And
she said to the king,
It
was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
And God saw
the light, that it was good:
Howbeit
I believed not the words, until I came, and mine
eyes
had seen it:
And
when the woman saw that the tree w-as good for
food,
and
that it w-as pleasant to the eyes,
and
a tree to be desired to make one wise,
she
took of the fruit thereof,
and
did eat,
and
gave also unto her husband - with her; and he did eat.
and,
behold,
the
half
was not told me:
thy
wisdom and
prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
Happy
are
thy men,
happy
are
these thy servants,
which
stand continually before thee,
and
that hear thy wisdom.
Blessed
be
the Lord thy God,
which delighted in thee,
to
set thee on the throne of Israel:
because
the Lord loved Israel for ever,
therefore
made he thee king,
to
do judgment and
justice.
dowry
1. Money or property brought by a bride to her
husband at marriage. Also called dower. 2.
A sum of money required of a
postulant at a convent. 3. A natural
endowment or gift; a talent. 4.
Archaic. See dower.
(n., sense 1)[Middle English douerie, from Anglo-Norman douarie,
from Medieval Latin dotarium, doarium, doaria, dower. See DOWER.]
And
he
drank of the wine,
and
was drunken;
and
he was uncovered within his tent.
And
she
gave the king an hundred
and twenty talents of gold,
And
the Lord said unto Cain,
Where
is Abel thy brother?
And
he said,
I
know not:
but
Cain w-as a tiller of the
ground.
Am
I
my brother's keeper?
And
he said,
What
hast thou
done?
the
voice
of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from
the ground.
And
now art thou cursed from the earth,
which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
and
of spices very great store,
and
precious stones:
there
came no more such abundance
of spices
as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
And
Joktan begat . . . and Sheba,
And
Ophir,
and Havilah,
and Jobab:
all
these were the
sons of Joktan.
And
Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David,
and
cedar trees,
and
carpenters,
and
masons:
and
they built David an house.
And
the navy also of Hiram,
that
brought
gold from Ophir,
And
Seth lived after he begat Enos eight
hundred and seven years,
and
begat sons and daughters:
brought in from
Ophir great plenty of almug trees,
and
precious stones.
And
the king made of the almug trees
pillars for the house of the Lord,
and
for the king's house,
And
Lamech took un-to him two wives:
And
un-to Eber were born two sons:
the name of the one was Adah, . . .
. . .And Adah bare Jabal: ,. . .
. . . And his brother's
name was Jubal:
he
w-as the father of all such as handle
the harp
and
organ.
harps
also
and psalteries for singers:
there
came no such almug trees,
nor
were seen un-to this day.
And
when the woman saw that the tree w-as good
for food, and that it was
pleasant to the eyes,
and
a tree to be desired to make one wise,
she took of the fruit there-of,
and
did
eat,
and gave also un-to her husband with her;
and
he did eat.
And
king Solomon gave un-to
the queen of Sheba all her desire,
And
out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast
of the field,
and
it came to pass,
when they were in the field,
that
Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
and
every fowl of the air;
and
brought them unto Adam to
see what he would call them:
and
whatsoever Adam called every living
creature,
that
w-as the name there-of.
And
king Solomon gave un-to
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 servants.
So
all
the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations;
and
from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen
generations;
and
from the carrying away into Babylon un-to Christ are fourteen generations.
Now
the birth of RAheme Christ w-as on this
wise:
When
as his mother
Mary w-as espoused to Joseph,
before
they came together,
Thus
the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
And
he said,
I
heard
thy voice in the garden,
and
I w-as afraid,
because I was naked;
and
I hid myself.
she was found with child of
the Holy Ghost.
Go
ye
there-fore in-to the high-ways,
and
as many as ye shall find,
bid
to
the marriage.
RAheme said unto him,
Thou
shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart,
and
with all thy soul,
and with all thy mind.
Enter
ye in at the
strait gate:
for
wide is the gate,
and
broad is the way,
that
leadeth to destruction,
And
God saw the light,
that
it w-as good:
and
God divided the light from the darkness.
And
God called the light Day,
and
the darkness - he called Night.
And
the evening and the morning
were the first day.
and
many there be which go in there-at:
Many
will say to me in that day,
Lord,
Lord,
have
we
not prophesied in thy name?
Lord,
and
in thy name have cast out devils?
Lord,
and
in thy name done many wonderful works?
And
the name of the second river is Gihon:
the same is it that compass-seth
the whole land of Ethiopia.
Wherefore
I say unto you,
All
manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men:
but
the blasphemy again-st the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
And
whosoever speak-eth a word again-st the Son of man,
it
shall be forgiven him:
Wherefore
I say un-to you,
All
manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men:
but
the blasphemy again-st the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
And the name of the second river is Gihon:
the same is it that compass-seth t-he
whole land of Ethiopia.
but
whosoever speak-eth again-st the Holy Ghost,
it
shall not be forgiven him,
neither
in
this world,
neither
in
the world to come.
That
thou
shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth,
which thou shalt bring of thy land that the Lord thy God giveth thee,
and
shalt put it in a basket,
and
shalt go un-to the place
which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name there.
And
thou shalt go un-to the priest that shall be in those days,
and
say un-to him,
I
profess this day unto the Lord thy God,
that
I am come unto the
country which the Lord sware un-to our
fathers for to give us.
And
then will I profess un-to them,
I never knew you:
depart from me,
ye
that work iniquity.
And
I say un-to you,
And
on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made;
and
he rested on the seventh
day from all his
work
which he had made.
That many shall come from the east and west,
and
shall sit down with Abraham,
and
Isaac,
and
Jacob,
in the kingdom of
heaven.
But
the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness:
And
thou
hast
filled me with wrinkles,
which is a witness against me:
and
my
leanness rising up in me beareth
witness to my face.
He
teareth me in his
wrath,
who
hateth me:
he
gnasheth up-on me
with his teeth;
mine
enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
there
shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
ISamuelyeaon-Am
