The Queen of Sheba visits King Solomon

The visit to Solomon of the Queen of Sheba fills a lot of Chapter 9 of II Chronicles.

The entry about her on PBS.com appears in their series titled, In search of myths and heroes, and tells us that the Queen of Sheba story is recorded in the sacred writings of the Jews, the Christians, and the Muslims, and that she may have come from Ethiopia.

She decides to see for herself Solomon’s amazingly rich kingdom. She goes by camel to Jerusalem. This version of her story has her having relations with Solomon and becoming pregnant. She goes home and has a son, Menelik. When he grows up, he decides that he would like to meet his father and travels to Israel for that purpose.

Here is the way the story ends in the In Search of myths and heroes version:

When he returns, he takes with him the Ark of the Covenant, the sacred container that contained the Ten Commandments. In Ethiopian legend, the Ark has remained in Ethiopia ever since and Ethiopians see Menelik as the first in an unbroken line of Ethiopian kings that stretches into the 20th century.

I wondered if the Islamic scriptures included the Queen of Ethiopia story. (Seeking information about Muhammad and the date of his revelation, I consulted Britannica, namely https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhammad. He was born c. 570 at Mecca, Arabia, and died Medina 632. It seems it is difficult to find biographical information on his life. That site is well worth a read.)  

Then, in the Wikipedia entry under Islamic View of the Bible, I was delighted to find this information about the sacred writings and the coincidence of some parts of them; it satisfied some of my wonderings:

Among the books considered to be revealed by God in the Quran, the three mentioned by name are the Tawrat (Torah) revealed to Musa (Moses), the Zabur (Psalms) revealed to Dawud (David), and the Injil (Gospel) revealed to Isa (Jesus). The Quran mentions the Torah, Psalms, and Gospel as being revealed by God in the same way the Quran was revealed to Muhammad, the final prophet and messenger of God according to Muslims.

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