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The Queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame

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Image via Wikipedia "And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions." ( 1 Kings 10:1 )   A thousand years after the famous visit of Sheba's queen to the court of King Solomon , Jesus made a remarkable spiritual application of her experience. "The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon ; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here" ( Matthew 12:42 ).   Solomon had prayed for wisdom, and the Lord gave him such legendary wisdom that the news even reached the distant land of Sheba, south of Ethiopia. We do not know what hard questions were confronting Sheba's queen at the time, but she finally decided she must find their solutions through Solomon and his God . God honored her searching faith, "and Solomon told her all her questions,"