by E.A. Wallis Budge, [1932] ZADOK the priest gave commands to DAVID the King ZADOK the priest answered and said unto the young man, “Hearken unto what I shall say unto thee. And if thou wilt performs it thou shalt live to God, and if thou dost not God will punish thee, and thou shalt become the least of […]
Contents When Solomon returned to Jerusalem he went with the elders into the House of God, and he and ZADOK embraced each other and wept bitterly. Then they dried their tears and the elders made a long speech to SOLOMON in which they sketched the past history of the Ark of the Covenant, i.e. the Tabernacle ZION. They reminded him how the PHILISTINES captured it and […]
When the English translation of the “Book of the Glory of Kings” appeared in 1922 it received a generous welcome from the gentlemen of the Press, and the approval of it by the public generally was shown by the fact that within two months from the day of publication a reprint was called for. The […]
The Return of ZADOK the Priest, and the giving of the Gift When ZADOK the priest returned to SOLOMON the King he found him sorrowful. And the King answered and said unto ZADOK the priest, “When the Queen came there appeared to me by night this vision: It seemed as if I were standing in the chamber of JERUSALEM, and the sun came down […]
The object of the author, or compiler, and the later editors of the KEBRA NAGAST (no matter what its original form may have been), was to glorify ETHIOPIA by narrating the history of the coming of the “spiritual and heavenly ZION“, the Tabernacle of the Law of the God of Israel, of her own free will from JERUSALEM to ETHIOPIA, and to make it […]
Those who were sent away wept and made a plan The children of the nobles of Israel, who were commanded to depart with the son of the king, took counsel together, saying, “What shall we do? For we have left our country and our birthplace, and our kinsfolk and the people of our city. Now, come […]
by E.A. Wallis Budge, [1932] SOLOMON Returned to JERUSALEM Then SOLOMON came back to the city of Jerusalem, and he went there with the elders of Jerusalem a great weeping in the house of God. And after this, the King and ZADOK the priest embraced each other, and they wept bitterly in the habitation of ZION, and they remained silent for a long time. And […]
by E.A. Wallis Budge, [1932] IN PRAISING GOD THE FATHER, THE SUSTAINER OF THE UNIVERSE, AND HIS SON JESUS CHRIST, THROUGH WHOM EVERYTHING CAME INTO BEING, AND WITHOUT WHOM NOTHING CAME INTO BEING, AND THE HOLY TRIUNE SPIRIT, THE PARACLETE, WHO GOETH FORTH FROM THE FATHER, AND DERIVETH FROM THE SON, WE BELIEVE IN AND […]
A curious and interesting legend of the way in which King SOLSolomoncame the father of MENYELEK is found in a number of slightly varying versions among many of the tribes of Northern ABYSSINIA. According to this the mother of MENYELEK was a Tigrê girl called ĔTĔYÊ AZÊB (i.e. Queen of the South), and her people worshipped a dragon or serpent, to which each man, […]
by E.A. Wallis Budge, [1932] The Angels who rebelled And there were certain angels with whom God was wroth—now He, the Knower of the heart knew them—and they reviled ADAM, saying, “Since God hath shown love to him He hath set us to minister unto him, and the beasts and creeping things, and the fish of […]
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