Wise Heart
1 Kings 10:24
The whole world sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart.
This is a gorgeous chapter, full of wealth and beauty and wonderful conversation. As I have been through a few select chapters, I can tell you that is rare, so I won't even mention the things that don't come up here.
Chapter 10 begins with the visit of the queen of Sheba.
Here are some things I found about Sheba.
The discovered text-records of ancient "Ashooris" of Babel; existing during nearly the same era of Queen of Sheba; asserted to the historians an indication of one or more queens that played their roles within the north Sector of the Arabian Peninsula. Queen of Sheba, if happened to be one of those queens, was said to exist during the eight century B.C.
Recently, the Big Exhibition in Paris showing "Ancient-Yemen Treasures" carried her name with the title reference "Yemen... the land of Queen Sheba".
It further specified that Sheba was the name known to one of the four caravans' merchandise routes i.e. Maeen, Sheba, Qataban and Hadramout. These were the four ancient routes of trading, or commerce,
Goods like inscence, myrreh, al-Nadrein perfume were traded on the silk route of Desert Arabia.
The father of History Herodeots wrote about the region: "It was the last land inhabited by Arab nomads. It is South Arabia Land from which natural smell of God were spreading from its soils".
It was the ancient Mareb Dam for which fell all their interests. During the kingdom the "Dam" had been built some nine Kilometers a distance from the ancient capital "Sheba", located now in Mareb province of the Yemeni Republic. This "Dam" is now considered by experts of history as a real artistic and accountable work achieved by ancient Sheba kingdom.
Source: Preliminary press report published
by "Al-Ra'y" newspaper of Oman Sultanate,
issue dated 5/11/97
Author: Press reporter Gozet Allia'
In fact here is the link to this charmingly written bit of history:
Normally I don't get so much into history, but when I look at these heart verses, and then the chapter, I find myself wondering about things I've taken for granted.
So, she was the queen of an Arab land with an incredible dam. Sheba was an area through which the caravans passed in that barbaric day. Poetically, I picture her, in these pre-Islam days, as a bold and strong Arabian woman, riding a beautiful horse, her ears and nose pierced for gold rings. She went to Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put into his heart.
In fact, the whole world went to Solomon.
God, give me a discerning heart, and put just a fraction of that wisdom in my heart.
The whole world sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart.
This is a gorgeous chapter, full of wealth and beauty and wonderful conversation. As I have been through a few select chapters, I can tell you that is rare, so I won't even mention the things that don't come up here.
Chapter 10 begins with the visit of the queen of Sheba.
Here are some things I found about Sheba.
The discovered text-records of ancient "Ashooris" of Babel; existing during nearly the same era of Queen of Sheba; asserted to the historians an indication of one or more queens that played their roles within the north Sector of the Arabian Peninsula. Queen of Sheba, if happened to be one of those queens, was said to exist during the eight century B.C.
Recently, the Big Exhibition in Paris showing "Ancient-Yemen Treasures" carried her name with the title reference "Yemen... the land of Queen Sheba".
It further specified that Sheba was the name known to one of the four caravans' merchandise routes i.e. Maeen, Sheba, Qataban and Hadramout. These were the four ancient routes of trading, or commerce,
Goods like inscence, myrreh, al-Nadrein perfume were traded on the silk route of Desert Arabia.
The father of History Herodeots wrote about the region: "It was the last land inhabited by Arab nomads. It is South Arabia Land from which natural smell of God were spreading from its soils".
It was the ancient Mareb Dam for which fell all their interests. During the kingdom the "Dam" had been built some nine Kilometers a distance from the ancient capital "Sheba", located now in Mareb province of the Yemeni Republic. This "Dam" is now considered by experts of history as a real artistic and accountable work achieved by ancient Sheba kingdom.
Source: Preliminary press report published
by "Al-Ra'y" newspaper of Oman Sultanate,
issue dated 5/11/97
Author: Press reporter Gozet Allia'
In fact here is the link to this charmingly written bit of history:
Normally I don't get so much into history, but when I look at these heart verses, and then the chapter, I find myself wondering about things I've taken for granted.
So, she was the queen of an Arab land with an incredible dam. Sheba was an area through which the caravans passed in that barbaric day. Poetically, I picture her, in these pre-Islam days, as a bold and strong Arabian woman, riding a beautiful horse, her ears and nose pierced for gold rings. She went to Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put into his heart.
In fact, the whole world went to Solomon.
God, give me a discerning heart, and put just a fraction of that wisdom in my heart.
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