Kebra Nagast

forsook the pleasures of the gods who were devils, and chose the service and praise of God. The daughters of Jerusalem suffered disgrace, and the daughters of the daughter of Judah Ethiopia were held in honour was sad, whilst the daughter of Ethiopia rejoiced ; the mountains of Ethiopia rejoiced, and the mountains of Lebanon mourned. The people of Ethiopia were chosen [from] among idols and graven images, and the people ; of Israel were rejected. The daughters of Zion were rejected, and the daughters of Ethiopia were honoured ; the old men of Israel became objects of contempt, and the old men of Ethiopia were honoured. For God accepted the peoples who had been cast away and rejected Israel, for Zion was taken away from them and she came into the country of Ethiopia. For wheresoever God is pleased for her to dwell, there is her habitation, and where He is not pleased that she should dwell she dwelleth not ; He is her founder, and Maker, and Builder, the Good God in the temple of His holiness, the habitation of His glory, with His Son and the Holy Amen. Spirit, for ever and ever. And Makeda, the Queen of Ethiopia, gave the kingdom to her son David, the son of Solomon, the King of " Take [the kingdom]. Israel, and she said unto him, I have made King him I have given [it] unto thee. whom God hath made King, and I have chosen him whom God hath chosen as the keeper of His Pavilion. I am well pleased with him whom God hath been 1 ased to make the envoy of the Tabernacle of His venant and His Law. I have magnified him whom God hath magnified [as] the director of His widows, S and I have honoured him whom God hath honoured [as] the giver of food to orphans." And the King rose up and girded up his apparel, and he bowed low before his mother, and said unto her, " Thou art the Queen, O my Lady, and I will serve thee in every thing which thou commandest me,