Kebra Nagast

the manner of our Lady Zion, and let us lay the Book of the Law inside it. Jerusalem the free that is in the heavens above us, which Jacob our father saw, is with us, and below it is the Gate of Heaven, this Jerusalem on the earth. If we do the Will of God and His good pleasure, God will be with us, and will deliver us out of the hand of our enemy, and out of the hand of all those who hate us ; God's Will, and not our will, be done, and God's good pleasure, and not our good pleasure, be Through this He hath made us sorrowful. Henceforward His wrath will cool in respect of us, and He will not abandon us to our enemies, and He will not remove His mercy far from us, and He will remember the covenant with our fathers Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob. He will not make His word to be a lie, and will not break His covenant so that our fathers' seed shall be destroyed." done. 63. HOW THE NOBLES OF ISRAEL AGREED [WITH THE KING] And then the elders of Israel made answer and said unto him, " May thy good pleasure be done, and the As for us, none of us good pleasure of the Lord God will transgress thy word, and we will not inform any other people that Zion hath been taken away from us." And they established this covenant in the House of God the elders of Israel with their King Solomon unto ! And this day. Solomon lived [thus] for eleven years after the taking away of Zion from him, and then his heart turned aside from the love of God, and he forgot his wisdom, through his excessive love of vromen. And he loved very greatly the daughter of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, whose name was Makshara, and he brought her into the house which he had made and there were figures of the sun, moon, and stars in the roof thereof, and it was illumined by night as brightly as by day. Its beams were made of brass, and its roof of silver, and its ; 100