When the queen of Sheva heard of the fame of Shlomo concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.
Acts 8:27 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Kush, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Kushim, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Yerushalayim to worship. 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. |
When the queen of Sheva heard of the fame of Shlomo concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.
Because of your temple at Yerushalayim, kings shall bring presents to you.
Princes shall come out of Egypt. Kush shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.
I will record Rachav and Bavel among those who acknowledge me. Behold, Peleshet, Tzor, and also Kush: *This one was born there.*
In that time, a present will be brought to the LORD of Armies from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of the LORD of Armies, Mount Tziyon.
I will tell the north, 'Give them up!' and tell the south, 'Don't hold them back! Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth--
Thus says the LORD: *The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Kush, and the Seva'im, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours. They shall go after you. In chains they shall come over; and they shall fall down to you. They shall make supplication to you: 'Surely God is in you; and there is none else, there is no other god.
Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midyan and `Efah; all they from Sheva shall come; they shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises of the LORD.
I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tuval and Yavan, to the islands afar off, who have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Can the Kushite change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
Now when `Eved-Melekh the Kushite, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Yirmeyahu in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Binyamin),
Go, and speak to `Eved-Melekh the Kushite, saying, Thus says the LORD of Armies, the God of Yisra'el: Behold, I will bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished before you in that day.
From beyond the rivers of Kush, my worshipers, even the daughter of my dispersed people, will bring my offering.
The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Shlomo; and behold, someone greater than Shlomo is here.
Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.
He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Yeshaiyahu.
Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?
By faith, Avraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.