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The Queen of Sheba, [a] known as Bilqis [b] in Yemeni and Islamic tradition and as Makeda [c] in Ethiopian tradition, is a figure first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. In the original story, she brings a caravan of valuable gifts for the Israelite King Solomon .
Bathsheba (/ b æ θ ˈ ʃ iː b ə, ˈ b æ θ ʃ ɪ b ə /; Hebrew: בַּת־שֶׁבַע Baṯ-šeḇaʿ, lit. ' Daughter of Sheba ' or ' Daughter of the Oath ') [1] was an Israelite queen consort.
The Queen of the South is one of the names/Titles the Reigning Queen of Sheba holds. Queen of the South (Greek: βασίλισσα νότου, basilissa notou) is an alternative title for the Queen of Sheba, used in two parallel passages in the New Testament (Matthew 12:42 and Luke 11:31), where Jesus said:
The Queen of the South generally is thought to be from Ethiopia, or to be the Queen of Sheba . According to Ethiopian tradition this queen was married to Solomon, and had a son by him. From him the Abyssinian kings are descended. Jesus is said to speak in third-person of himself out of modesty. As of note many authors compare this queen who was ...
Sheba, [a] or Saba, [b] was an ancient South Arabian kingdom in modern-day Yemen [3] whose inhabitants were known as the Sabaeans [c] or the tribe of Sabaʾ which, for much of the 1st millennium BCE, were indissociable from the kingdom itself. [4]
Articles relating to the Queen of Sheba and her depictions. In the original story, she brings a caravan of valuable gifts for the Israelite King Solomon.This account has undergone extensive Jewish, Islamic, Yemenite and Ethiopian elaborations, and it has become the subject of one of the most widespread and fertile cycles of legends in West Asia and East Africa.
Statue of Abiathar (next to the Queen of Sheba) at Reims Cathedral. Abiathar (Hebrew: אֶבְיָתָר ʾEḇyāṯār, "father (of) abundance"/"abundant father"), [1] in the Hebrew Bible, is a son of Ahimelech or Ahijah, High Priest at Nob, [2] the fourth in descent from Eli [3] and the last of Eli's House to be a High Priest.
At one point it is a bridge over which the Queen of Sheba passes. Ultimately, it is made into the cross ( Middle English : rood ) on which Jesus is crucified. The Legend of the Rood is a key component in the complex of motifs known as the Medieval popular Bible .