The queen of Sheba heard about Solomon’s fame connected with the name of the Lord and came to test him with difficult questions.
Acts 8:27 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised So he got up and went. There was an Ethiopian man, a eunuch and high official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to worship in Jerusalem Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So he got up and went. And behold, an Ethiopian, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure, had come to Jerusalem to worship. American Standard Version (1901) And he arose and went: and behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship; Common English Bible So he did. Meanwhile, an Ethiopian man was on his way home from Jerusalem, where he had come to worship. He was a eunuch and an official responsible for the entire treasury of Candace. (Candace is the title given to the Ethiopian queen.) Catholic Public Domain Version And rising up, he went. And behold, an Ethiopian man, a eunuch, powerful under Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasures, had arrived in Jerusalem to worship. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And rising up, he went. And behold a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch, of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge over all her treasures, had come to Jerusalem to adore. |
The queen of Sheba heard about Solomon’s fame connected with the name of the Lord and came to test him with difficult questions.
At that time a gift will be brought to the Lord of Armies from a people tall and smooth-skinned, a people feared far and near, a powerful nation with a strange language, whose land is divided by rivers #– #to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the Lord of Armies.
I will say to the north, “Give them up! ” and to the south, “Do not hold them back! ” Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the ends of the earth –
This is what the Lord says: ‘The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be yours; they will follow you, they will come over in chains and bow down to you. They will confess to you, “God is indeed with you, and there is no other; there is no other God.” ’
Nations will come to your light, and kings to your shining brightness.
Caravans of camels will cover your land – young camels of Midian and Ephah – all of them will come from Sheba. They will carry gold and frankincense and proclaim the praises of the Lord.
I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from them to the nations #– #to Tarshish, Put, Lud (who are archers), Tubal, Javan, and the coasts and islands far away #– #who have not heard about me or seen my glory. And they will proclaim my glory among the nations.
Can the Cushite change his skin, or a leopard his spots? If so, you might be able to do what is good, you who are instructed in evil.
But Ebed-melech, a Cushite court official in the king’s palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Benjamin Gate,
‘Go and tell Ebed-melech the Cushite, “This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am about to fulfil my words for disaster and not for good against this city. They will take place before your eyes on that day.
From beyond the rivers of Cush my supplicants, my dispersed people, will bring an offering to me.
The queen of the south will rise up at the judgement with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and look #– #something greater than Solomon is here.
Now some Greeks were among those who went up to worship at the festival.
and was sitting in his chariot on his way home, reading the prophet Isaiah aloud.
And it is not across the sea so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea, get it for us, and proclaim it to us so that we may follow it? ”
By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and set out for a place that he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, even though he did not know where he was going.