Kebra Nagast

How Solomon returned to Jerusalem Make for her according to the heads of governors, your houses, sixty figures of mice in gold, since mice have destroyed your land, and sixty figures of the member of a man, since your own persons have suffered from And the Philissores and boils on your members.' 1 f tines made as they commanded them one hundred and twenty offerings of gold, and gave them to Zion. And again they said unto the priests, How shall we send her away ? And whom do ye say shall set her in her city ?' And again the magicians of the Philistines said unto 2 them, Let them bring two she-camels that brought forth their firstborn at the same time, and let them attach a wagon 3 to them and they must keep back their young ones and shut them up in the house and must the two she-camels and then they yoke together, set them free and let them go where they will. And if ' ' they march straight for Jerusalem we shall know that peradventure God hath had compassion on our land but if they wander about, and go hither and thither, and wish to turn back to the place whence they started, then we shall know that God is [still] wroth with us, and that He will not remove His punishment until He hath blotted out ourselves and our city.' " And the Philistines did as the priests commanded ; their governors, and they sent away Zion, and prostra- ted themselves before her. And those camels made their way straight to the country of Judah, and they came to the threshing floor and the house of thy kinsfolk received them. And those who did not receive them were the men of the house of Dan, and they did not do homage to Zion, for they regarded her in anger as their destroyed (?) God. And they cut up the pieces of wood of the wagon, and they made those camels to be And whilst sacrifices, and Zion returned to her place. Zion was in [her] house Samuel the Prophet ministered 1 Five mice and five emerods ; see I Sam. vi, 4. " Two milch kine," i Sam. vi, 7. A new cart," I Sam. vi, 14 G 97 7.