Kebra Nagast

How they made the Son of Solomon King If thou wishest, thou seed as thou hast proclaimed. canst sell them and their mothers to be slaves ; it is not for us to transgress thy command and the command of the Lord thy God." And then they made ready to do for them (i.e., their children) what it was right to do, and to send them into the country of Ethiopia, so that they might reign there and dwell there for ever, they and their seed from generation to generation. 39. HOW THEY MADE THE SON OF SOLOMON KlNG And they made ready the ointment of the oil of kingand the sounds of the large horn, and the small horn, and the flute and the pipes, and the harp and and the city resounded with the drum filled the air And they brought the young cries of joy and gladness. man into the Holy of Holies, and he laid hold upon the horns of the altar, and sovereignty was given unto him by the mouth of Zadok the priest, and by the mouth of ship, ; Joas (Benaiah) the priest, the commander of the army of King Solomon, and he anointed him with the holy oil ointment of kingship. And he went out from the house of the Lord, and they called his name David, of the for the name of a king came to him by the law. And they made him to ride upon the mule of King Solomon, " and they led him round about the city, and said, We " have appointed thee from this moment ; and then " Bah out to him, the royal [Long] live they cried " " And there were some who said, It is meet father and right that thy dominion of Ethiopia shall be from ! the River of Egypt to the west of the sun (i.e., to the blessed be thy seed upon the earth and from Shoa to the east of India, for thou wilt please And the Lord God of [the people of these lands]. Israel shall be unto thee a guide, and the Tabernacle of the Law of God shall be with all that thou lookest upon. And all thine enemies and foes shall be overthrown before thee, and completion and finish shall be setting sun) ; ! S3