. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. very great and splendid retinue; and in her train were camels laden with spices, gold,and precious stones. In her interviews with Solomon she tried him with hard questions,—a mode of testing wisdom which was common in that age, and which, indeed, every onewho made unusual pretensions to knowledge and sagacity was understood to invite. Solomonwas familiar with this exercise, for doubtless other illustrious visitors had tried his wisdom inthe same manner; and Josephus expressly says that before this
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. very great and splendid retinue; and in her train were camels laden with spices, gold,and precious stones. In her interviews with Solomon she tried him with hard questions,—a mode of testing wisdom which was common in that age, and which, indeed, every onewho made unusual pretensions to knowledge and sagacity was understood to invite. Solomonwas familiar with this exercise, for doubtless other illustrious visitors had tried his wisdom inthe same manner; and Josephus expressly says that before this there had been much passingof hard questions to and fro between him and Hiram king of Tyre. He readily solvedall the dithculties which the royal stranger proposed; and we are told that, When the queen • In tlie book of Lcclesinsfes ; the only book in the canonical Scriptures which lays claim to a philcsophical character,t ffc should say hend or intellect. The Hebrew s made the heart tho seat of intellect, and the bowels the seat of feeling-t 1 Kings iv. 29—.34. Chap. III.] SOLOMON. 541. [Joarneyofan Abyssinian Queen .^ of Sheba had seen all Solomons wisdom, and the house which he had built, and the food ofhis table, and the station of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, with their apparel,and his cup-bearers, and his burnt-offerings which he offered in the house of Jehovah, therewas no more spirit in her, and she said to the king, True was the report which I heard inmy own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. Yet that report I believed not until I came, andsaw with mine o\vn eyes; and lo, the half had not been told me : thy wisdom and greatness farexceed the report that I heard. Happy thy men! happy these thy servants who stand con-tinually before thee and hear thy wisdom. Blessed be Jehovah thy God, who was so pleasedwith thee as to set thee on the throne of Israel.* Being now satisfied, the queen presented Solomon with the precious things she had broughtwi
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