Solomon
king
Act 5:
Night of Passion
It
is ten centuries before the birth of Jesus, according to legend the queen of
Sheeba has been a guest in Solomon’s court for six months.
And
king Solomon gave onto the queen of Sheeba all her desire whatsoever she asked
beside that which Solomon have her of his royal bounty.
As
Sheeba prepares to return to homeland Solomon overseas the preparation of a
farewell feast. For some inapplicable reason he tells his servant to add
powerful spices to the food. Eye each other over the long banquet table they
linger, knowing this is the last meal they will ever share together. Finally,
then the candles are burn low Solomon suggest that she spend the night in his
palace.
And
she said well I am not comfortable staying I am afraid that you are going to
try to seduce me and he said well I promise I won’t take anything from you if
you promise not to take anything of mine.
Solomon
arranges a chamber with there are two beds and wishes her good night. Sheeba
awakens in middle of the night with an intense thirst from a spicy meal.
Solomon watches her from the other bed that is only a mouthful of water, she
indeed taken something that she has broken her promise he sleeps into her bed.
There passion held been check for so long is finally realized. Solomon and the
queen of Sheeba share hours of joyful lovemaking later as he falls asleep
Solomon has anonymous dream.
He
dreams that the sun has deployed from Jerusalem forever and never comes back he
waits and waits and it never comes back and might some say that his feeling
about her leaving that the onth is really going out of his life. Sheeba awakens
in the morning, ready to depart for home. Solomon places his signet ring on her
finger a token of his affection. Reluctantly he watches the queen that she sets
off on her homeward journey. But neither Sheeba nor Solomon know is that she
was pregnant with Solomon’s child. Legend tells us that nine months after
leaving the kingdom of Israel a son is born to the queen of Sheeba she names
him Manolick. After a long journey mother and son reach their home in Ethiopia.
Historian have wondered whether Sheeba’s liaison with king Solomon is
responsible for the existence of Jewish population now living in Ethiopia.
When
Sheeba returned to Africa or Arabia she wears with many gifts so she may well
have been bringing Cordier, mad, servants, nannies, tutors all kinds of people
pack with her and these as well as her own encountered with Solomon could be
the origin of Ethiopian Jewish.
As
her son Manolick grows up Sheeba frequently recounts stories of his mighty
father on the land he rules far to the north and yet under heart she knows that
she will never set eyes on Solomon again. When the boy turns 13 Sheeba tells
him to go to Jerusalem to meet his father.
When
he says, how will I know my father she holds up the mirror and she say he looks
just like this you my son, he looks just like you.
As
Manolick sets off for Jerusalem Sheeba entrust him with Solomon signet ring
telling him that he will be through this ring that his father recognizes him,
that is the son of the woman he once he loved. Many scholars have questioned
whether Solomon ever met the son born from his single night of passion with the
queen of Sheeba, other believed that Manolick did in fact reach Jerusalem. It
has been said that years later when Manolick leaves Jerusalem to return to
Ethiopia and he takes with him the sacred arc of the covenant. To this day some
people claim the arch is kept in a remote temple in Ethiopia’s holy city of Irksome.
However, many experts remain unconvinced they believed at far more likely that
the arc disappeared is late is the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians four
hundred years after the death of Solomon some speculates that arc may have been
destroyed by army and melted down. Others however believe it may still be
intact.
The
arc is definitely buried somewhere in according to a most traditional sources,
it is actually buried somewhere in Jerusalem.
Even
today explorers believed that the arc is buried and continue to search for it
remains.
It
is seemed certain is that king Solomon does not end his life are happy or
fulfilled man. Scholar have wondered was it because he allowed the one woman he
might have loved to slip through his fingers.
One
can imagine Solomon standing on the roof of his palace watching Sheeba’s
caravan disappeared over the sands as he thinks about the one who got away. It
is after his liaison with the queen of Sheeba that Solomon is believed to written
Aclisiacities a book in the bible characterized by the its haunting loment.
So,
every sing there is season a time to every purpose onto the heaven a time to be
born and time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck that which is
planted.
It
seems to me that the book of Acklisiacities represents all of us in our moments
of bitterness and in our moments of wondering if all of life is just vanity.
The message seems to be even in our darkest moment, even in our bitterest
thoughts about where is god the assurance is know god is still with you.
Strangely
in his last days a figure enters Solomon’s life was never before been mentioned
in the bible. It is Rehbor a son from one of Solomon’s many wives. All that
history tells us is that Solomon names him his successor to the throne. Solomon
spends his last days alone in the magnificent palace he built for himself. His
reign was marked by forty years of peace and tranquility. Why is it there that
shortly after Solomon’s death the United Kingdom of Israel is rocked by
political turmoil?
Ten
of the traditional trade tribe pull away from the house of David this isn’t a
division of the kingdoms as we so nicely say this is a mass rejection of the
house of Solomon, this is mass rebellion amongst the majority of the people
rejecting the rulership of Solomon.
Some
scholars will Solomon personally responsible for the break up of the twelve
tribes of Israel.
He
became enamored of his own power and his own reach and his own possibilities
and potential and in the end, he forgot that he is fellable human being, that
he was accountable primarily to god and to the people. And so, he left the
legacy that did great harm to Israel.
The
tragedy of king Solomon strikes a universal and haunting code. Perhaps no other
human being has been blessed with such a deep ad abiding wisdom. By relying on
this divine insight Solomon manage to build Israel it one mighty nation that
all the ancient world for a generation and yet somehow, we lost his way. Caught
up in all of his worldly accomplishments Solomon lost sight of the needs of the
common man. The shining promise of his youth was never realized wisdom without
compassion can be a dangerous tool. In his hunger for greatness Solomon was to
abused his god given gift see it turn with disastrous effect against not only
on his own people but also against himself.
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