Kebra Nagast

The Nobles of Israel agree with the-King: \. panels (?) of lead, and its walls of stone, red with black, and brown with white [and] green and its floor was of And he used to blocks of sapphire stone and sardius. love for his house and his and dwell therein through go of Pharaoh the king of wife the his Makshara, daughter ; Now the queen possessed certain idols which her father had given her to bow down before, and because, when Solomon saw her sacrificing to them and worshipping them, he did not rebuke her or forsake her, God was wroth with him, and made him to forget his wisdom. And she multiplied her sacrifices, and her worship, and her folly, according to the stupidity of the Egyptians, and all the people of her house worshipped the idols, and learned the foolish service of idols. And enjoying the pleasure of their foolish service they worshipped with the daughter of Pharaoh, and the children of Israel joined themselves to her, and the women and their handmaidens joined themselves unto her in the worship and foolish service of idols. And Solomon himself found pleasure in hearing their foolish service and folly. And when she saw that he loved her, and hearkened, and held his peace, and asked many questions about the foolish service of the gods of the Egypt- made herself exceedingly agreeable to him, and she spoke to him with honeyed words, and with the tender speech of women, and with the sweet smile that accompanieth the presentment of an evil deed, and with the turning of the face and the assumption of a look of good intent, and with the nodding ians, she of the head. With actions of this kind she caused away from his good intent, and she enticed him to the evil of her work, wishing to drag him down into the folly of the foolish service of idols his heart to turn through carelessness. And as the deep sea draweth down into its depths the man who cannot swim, until the water overwhelmeth him and destroyeth his life, 101